T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.”
“The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.”
Source: My Life in France
“The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.”
“The sweetness of a kiss is not in two lips, touching each other; it is in the feelings that bring and keep them together.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“The sweetness of adversity: we develop the sanity of solitude.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, I thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! How rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were his perfect moon.”
“The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.”
Source: The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
“The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.”
“The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.”
Source: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues
“The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.”
Source: Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table
“The sweetness of prayer is the prosperity of the soul.”
“The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.”
“The sweetness of the fruit is but the prelude to decay. Dying hast thou been, since the day ye were first born.”
Source: Empire of the Vampire
“The sweetness of the Scripture is satisfactory to the soul.”
“The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.”
“The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.”
“The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours,
Even in the moment that we call them ours.”
Source: The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage
“The swell of tears in my eyes starts again, but this is too happy a moment for them to fall. They hang there, bright and sparkling in the twilight, as my smirk melts to a smile.”
Source: Send Me Their Souls
“The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.”
“The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!”
“The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”
“The Swendish queen— whose name I couldn’t pronounce to save my life.”
“The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense was an appeal to the authority of veterans who supported him-one of whom has now been revealed to have received a medal he doesn't deserve. This doesn't prove the Kerry detractors were right, but it certainly doesn't weaken their case.”
“The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.”
Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more
“The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.”
Source: Make up your mind --about the issues of life
“The swift wings of years passed in hurry;and it’s a pallid thought to believe those all are past-the boyhood pleasance,the very tender smiles,the fine soft delicate sense.”
Source: Venus and Crepuscule
“The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.”
Source: The Washer of the Ford: Legendary Moralities and Barbaric Tales
“The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.”
Source: The Epigrams of Martial
“The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.”
“The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.”
“The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.”
“The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?”
Source: The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel
“The swimmer and the shark whose life he has saved find themselves face to face. They look into each other’s eyes for several minutes, and each is amazed to find such fierceness in the gaze of the other. They swim in a circle, not losing sight of each other, and they both say to themselves: ‘I was wrong until now; here is one more wicked than I.”
Source: Maldoror and the Complete Works
“The Swimmer's Advantage:
1)The goal is measured first by seeing; The distance is accomplished by the strategy of believing that the same set of repetitious acts will get them there.
2)Even when the elements around you are overwhelming, have the confidence to keep your head the above water.
3) Though at times you may not even see it, faith is knowing that the shore is always straight ahead.
4) By consistently reaching out over and over, you are bound to be rewarded by touching something worth more than when you started.”
“The Swimmer's Advantage:
1)Your goal is measured first by seeing; The distance is accomplished by the strategy of believing that the same set of repetitious acts will get you there.
2)Even when the elements around you are overwhelming, have the confidence to keep your head above the water.
3) Though at times you may not even see it, faith is knowing that the shore is always straight ahead.
4) By consistently reaching out over and over, you are bound to be rewarded by touching something worth more than when you started.”
“The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.”
“The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?”
“The swimsuit and jeans look is my favorite. It was a big part of my introduction to the world as an artist. It was so cool to see girls wearing swimsuits with their jeans during that time.”
“The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!”
Source: Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944: His Private Conversations
“The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.”
“The swinging of the pendulum far to the left will cause it to go all the farther to the right.”
“The swish of the oars and the hypnotic thrum of dragonflies blended with his academic monotone. Camilla, flushed and sleepy, trailed her hand in the water. Yellow birch leaves blew from the trees and drifted down to rest on the surface.”
Source: The Secret History
“The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.”
Source: A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by
“The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.”
“The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.”
Source: The Prince
“The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off, I’ve got the toe clippers right here.”
“The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875-1961) first introduced the concept of "synchronicity" to describe the meaningful coincidences which occur in our lives and connect us all in our humanity.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“The Swiss will never be the wild child of Europe; you only have to look at their lovingly tended vegetable patches to see that. But whether they are boring or not most likely depends on the eye of the beholder.”
Source: The Naked Swiss: A Nation Behind 10 Myths
“The switch from a delightful illusion to a still inspiring reality is full of surprises.”