T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“The tip no jewel needs to wear:
The tip is jewel of the ear.”
Source: The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse
“The tip of my finger hooked under the top, and I pulled it slowly to the side, feeling the drag.
Lucian grunted, low and protracted, as though the sound could make me go faster. The reaction in my body was a delicious clenching of my sex. I arched into that sound, my lids fluttering as I tugged the top farther over, stopping right at the edge of my nipple. And he jerked, the water sloshing.
"Em..." The plea came out in a thick rasp. "Baby..."
The muscles along his arms bunched as he gripped the lip of the pool, as though trying to hold himself back.”
Source: Make It Sweet
“The tip of the neighbour's iceberg often looks very nice.”
“The tipping point for e-voting fraud, I think, will be when they realize it's cheaper to hire hackers than to buy campaign ads.”
“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”
“The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.”
“The tipping point of spiritual maturity comes when you move from “should” to “would.”
“The tips of her fingers started to tingle as did the tattoo of the small purple flower that decorated her chest. That was the last sign she needed. Whatever force that was looking out for her, it was sending her a warning.”
“The tired ox treads with a firmer step.”
“The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.”
Source: A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill
“the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.”
“The tiredness induced by a long walk expresses itself first in a trancelike state, where insidious, aggressive thoughts bubble up without your realizing it, then in mild hallucinations, before ending in euphoric confusion.
The hypochondriacal obsession. Once all protection is secured, it is from the inside that the body is overexposed to all assaults and disruptions. Against the disorders that ensue there is only the character armour, which does not even allow the signals from the body to show through.
Wariness of one's nearest and dearest, as though they were potential witnesses for the prosecution in your existence, evidence of guilt in a trial that is permanently suspended.
The panda that is having trouble reproducing: they show him porn films to rouse his libido.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“The tiredness of M.E. or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is so different to normal tiredness.
We all say "I'm so tired". No you're not because you are still standing.
The tiredness of M.E. is so different because it doesn't get better when you rest.
It is tiredness through your bones. It is such a profound weariness.
It's not due to muscle weakness.
It is not loss of motivation or pleasure such as you get in people who are depressed.
It is just exhaustion to your bones.”
“The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.”
“The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.”
“The Titan's Fall by Stewart Stafford
Colossus ship of the Titans,
Flames of Tartarus in its belly,
Unsinkable beneath the stars,
Champagne popped too soon.
In infinite glacial hubris,
Collided with its own ambition,
Immortal Gordian Knot slashed,
And freezing death crept aboard.
Cantering up Scotland Road,
Trojan Seahorse's Achilles' Heel,
Solitary children drowning,
In heartbroken submersion.
The River Styx fell silent,
But for whimpered prayers.
As Charon's boat of death,
Ferried them to Hades.
The tangled Medusan wreckage,
Once a great wonder of the earth,
Plunged into an underworld abyss -
A terrible beauty on the seabed nests.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“The Titanic disaster combined the inevitability of a Greek tragedy with the ominous warning of the medieval morality play. it marked the end of an era, and with the Titanic sank the snugness and smugness of the Edwardian illusion that there were no limits to man’s ingenuity and progress. In place of this hard-lost illusion came the harsh recognition of the onset of the age of insecurity, of which the Titanic offered the first forebodings. The Titanic disaster marks a partition in human history, and for this reason, in addition to its essential drama, it will always arouse interest as a tragedy of historic and epic magnitude.”
Source: The Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivors
“The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.”
“The Titanic will protect itself.”
“The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.”
“The tithe is God's historical method to get us on the path of giving. In that sense, it can serve as a gateway to the joy of grace giving. It's unhealthy to view tithing as a place to stop, but it can still be a good place to start.”
“The tithe is the old invisible tax imposed on all religious people.”
“The tithe simply is not a sufficiently radical concept to embody the carefree unconcern for possessions that marks life in the Kingdom of God. ...
It is quite possible to tithe and at the same time oppress the poor and needy. ...
The tithe is not necessarily evil' it simply cannot provide a sufficient base for Jesus' call to carefree unconcern over provision. ...
Perhaps the tithe can be a beginning way to acknowledge God as the owner of all things, but it is only a beginning and not an ending.”
Source: Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World
“The title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty, rank, arrangement, their proper and fitting place and order.”
“The title [of the album 'The Big Revival']alone fit what I was feeling. It defined what I was going through. That year off was a time to revive, to reset, to reclaim, to revitalize and to re-focus. It was a revival of how I made music, how I presented it and my connection with the fans.”
“The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.”
“The title human is not our birthright, we have to earn it by living with humanity.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“The title human is not some family heirloom that is handed down through generations - each generation must earn the title - and not just that, each generation must rediscover the very definition of the term human in their own way and make it evolve with the needs of the time.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“The title is one of the most important things. It is the first thing that people read.”
“The title is still on the cards until it's off the cards.”
“The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title...is like, so...I have to make sure I can tell a whole story from that one title and like make sure that it, from beginning to end it makes sense.”
“The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.”
“The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated. The name of Jesus is not to be to us like the Allah of the Mahometans, a talisman or an amulet to be worn on the arm, as an external badge merely and symbol of our profession, and to preserve us from evil by some mysterious and unintelligible potency; but is to be engraved deeply on the heart, there written by the finger of God himself in everlasting characters.”
Source: A Practical View of Preferred Christians
“The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.”
Source: Dutch civilisation in the seventeenth century: and other essays
“the title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since.”
“The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.”
“The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the atmosphere established in the written or spoken exhange, among many other instances, offer alternatives to the book itself that allow us to talk about ourselves without dwelling upon the work too closely.”
Source: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
“The title of this Chautauqua is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," not "Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing," and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen. Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not the mountaintop. The only Zen you fin on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.”
“The title on the front of the sketchbook was written in bold cursive: 'Libby's Book of Butterflies.'
One of the edges was folded, and she smoothed it with her hand, reverently, to honor the sister she'd never known. Then she stepped back under the light and flipped through the first pages. There were beautiful paintings of butterflies, their wings bright from the watercolors.
Did her sister create this book or did someone make it for her?
Mum had loved her gardens, but Heather had never known her to do any kind of artwork. She'd always been busy planting her flowers and working as a hairdresser and caring well for their family.
Intrigued, Heather slowly turned the pages. The butterflies were unique in their brilliance, each one with a magical name.
Golden Shimmer. Moonlit Fairy. Lavender Lace.
Under the butterflies were short descriptions. Like they all had different personalities. Her favorite was the Autumn Dancer, colored a vibrant orange and red with speckles of teal. It reminded her of a leaf, clinging to its branch before the autumn winds blew it away.”
Source: Shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor
“The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.”
“The title says it all: 'Little House on a Small Planet.' With population,
pollution and environmental pressures weighing heavily upon us, our planet
grows smaller every day and the need for thoughtful, lower-impact housing becomes more urgent. This delightful book is full of inspiring ideas that will help you simplify your housing choices, make more environmentally responsible product and material choices and bring down the square footage of your next home. Or maybe you'll decide to take your current home and turn it into several. You won't be disappointed.”
“The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.”
“The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in between, falls under this rubric. Happy is the person who comes to understand something and then gets to explain it.”
“The title's more important than the book.”
“The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but quite a cool 90's anger, at a time when we're not very good at openly being angry. . . . I don't think I ever thought the title was titillating. I thought it was incredibly catchy. If the play is about the reduction in human relations down to a consumerist rationale, then thematically, the title is entirely linked into the thesis of the play.”
“The titles husband and wife must take priority over the titles dad and mom.”
Source: Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner
“The titles of Jesus (son of God, messiah, light of the world, etc.) are not found in the earliest layer of tradition and are not part of self proclamation of Jesus. This does not make them wrong. Rather, they are the voice of the community, statements about what people around Jesus thought of him.”