T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every single decision.”
“The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.”
“The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.”
“The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.”
“The thing about joy is that it's not about things.”
Source: Inspire & Nurture SELF CARE
“The thing about justifications is that they’re required when there’s not enough truth in what we’re doing to justify it without justifying it.”
“The thing about karma is, it doesn't cancel each other. You'll get rewards for the good karma, and you'll be punished for the bad karma.”
“The thing about kids is that they don't have the broader perspective of what's happening on a national level. Anything that's going wrong in their world, they somehow assume is unique to them and they're somehow to blame. It turns into an issue of shame.”
“The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.”
“The thing about knowing you’re broken is that knowing is not enough to fix it.”
Source: Taking chances
“The thing about learning how to fight is that— some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are born fighters; but they don't usually point out that others just aren't. Some of us are forced by life to take up arms and fight. Many of us are. The art lies in knowing when to wield those arms and when to put them down. I don't think it's a matter of pretending to be ideally unharmed by life and untouched by darkness; because that is hypocrisy. Rather, I think it is a matter of being true to your truth and learning when to fight and learning when to be soft. Hopefully, our soft moments in life will largely outweigh, outrank, and outrun our fighting.”
“The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.”
“The thing about legs is you're born with them. Anybody can go out and buy boobs. But you're either blessed with attractive legs or you're not. That's what makes them so sexy.”
“The thing about life, Harry had told Lauren, was to live in the world with interest. To keep your eyes open and see the possibilities - see the humanity - in everybody you met. To be aware. If he had anything at all to teach her it was that. Be aware.”
Source: Runaway: Stories
“The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.”
“The thing about life is we already know the ending is death. Personally I have tried to at least give the bits in the middle every chance of surprising me. We all start and end the same , but what happens in between might be up to us”
Source: Living the Best Day Ever
“The thing about life is, you’ve got to somehow make it through the day. Don’t wait for the beautiful evening. Go on with your life. Of course, the beautiful evening will come. In fact, she’s on her way. And she’s coming to you as fast as she can. And dude, she’s beautiful.”
“The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.”
“The thing about life that I've learned is that you're going to get hurt. You're going to have emotional nights and cry yourself to sleep. You're going to suffer some kind of heartbreak, some kind of loss. But you will also have those moments where you heal. Those moments are the best. Your smiles will reappear. You will feel more alive. It is only through these struggles and through these defeats which you will feel that your life has just begun...again”
“The thing about Light is it bends but it never breaks”
“The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.”
“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.”
Source: One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel
“The thing about living in a place like Nebraska is there aren't that many people, so your circle of acquaintances is going be much more diverse. Everyone would go to the same bar, like the local politicians and construction workers. The class intersections were fascinating to me. And of course there's a whole other conversation about what a huge source of growth it was for me in terms of understanding people and the world in a way that I hadn't in New York. I used to say that L.A. is essentially New York with yards.”
“The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.”
“The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.”
“The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.”
“The thing about losing someone, it's like...You see something, and you think 'oh, they'll love this once I tell them' or 'I can't wait to share this with them,' but you can't. Because they're dead. So you just store these—these words inside yourself, because what the fuck else can you do?”
Source: Wrath Becomes Her
“The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.”
Source: Truly Funny Stories Vol. 1: Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog and My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space
“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“The thing about love is that you will never run out of it. It's an ever-flowing river. So go ahead and LOVE. What are you saving all this love for — death?”
“The thing about love, she’s discovered, is that the mass of it never changes, even if the bond itself changes shape.”
Source: The Splinter in the Sky
“The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.”
“The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.”
“The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you're doing it -- as soon as they're gone, all you want to do is take it all back”
“The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic.”
“The thing about lying is it’s like creating your own world, controlling your own little world. A tiny innocent, or as some people call them white lie, can lead eventually to the break-up of a relationship. If the other person in the relationship knows the person has lied, no matter if it was with good intentions, then it’s the beginning of the breakdown of trust. A profile or a picture is being continually formed of the two people in a relationship, and the lies, big and small, add to that profile.”
Source: And When the Arguing's Over...: Contemporary One Act Plays
“The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.”
“The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.”
“The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.”
“The thing about Manchester is...it all comes from here”
“The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.”
“The thing about marriages, bad ones especially, is the utter disregard with which the couple and those around them treat the cracks when they first emerge. Like tectonic plates that crush and grind against each other under the surface of the earth, the damage does not happen on one sunny morning when the earthquake hits. When a couple splits, it is the result of an inevitable break that has been brewing for years without respite.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“The thing about Matt Cameron is he has made us 1000 times a better band than we've ever been. He's such a freight train on drums and such a cool individual as a man that it makes us better as a band, and we are now complete with him.”
“The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time.”
“The thing about me and other escape artists before me is this: I'm gonna thrive even when the world is on fire because my help doesn't come from this wicked world.”
Source: We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape
“The thing about me is – essentially, I’m a coward.
I am. I can’t stand weird stuff, anything that’s not normal. […]
I’m a coward, and I’ve faced it, and I’ve learn to accept it. And I’m okay with that, as long as nothing happens so I have to start feeling ashamed about it, or guilty.
I don’t think my parents know this about me. […]
But the other thing is, I just hate it when people are disappointed in me.”
Source: The Only Alien on the Planet
“The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.”
“The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.”
“The thing about me is, I don't care what religion you are. If someone is attacking your religion, I will have your back, and I will defend you. I think that is the most repulsive thing a person can do, attack another person's faith.”