T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The tone we want to avoid is melodrama.”
Source: Blonde
“The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.”
“The tongue can be a powerful deflector of aggression. The men who came to arrest Jesus were arrested by the winsome words churning out from his silver tongue. “Never has another man spoken like this”, was their response for returning without him.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“The tongue can be an ambassador of the heart. Or a deadly weapon. Somehow the Spirit of God took hold of me. I realized the devastating power of reckless words. And I began to pray that God would transform my tongue and use my words to bring healing and hope.”
Source: Family Squeeze: Tales of Hope and Hilarity for a Sandwiched Generation
“The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.”
“The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
“The tongue enjoys tasting food.”
“The tongue has no bones, but it can break you down.”
“The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.”
“The tongue has the power of life and death.”
“The tongue is a match that can set the whole body on fire.”
“The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.”
“The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she will never become a saint. Let her not delude herself - unless it is the Spirit of God who is speaking through her, for then she must not keep silent. But, in order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one's soul and to keep silence; not a gloomy silence but an interior silence; that is to say, recollection in God.”
“The tongue is a venomous serpent, which is why the wise cage it.”
“The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
[The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]”
“The tongue is shallow, like water lapping at the shore. To fully understand is to swim in the deep ocean with all the senses. ~Prince Dhruzyr explains conversation between dragons. Tales of Eldelórne: Book Two.”
“The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.”
“The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.”
“The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].”
“The tongue is the soft weapon that kills subtly.”
“The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.”
“The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.”
Source: The Satires of Juvenal and Persius Literally Translated from the Most Approved Texts by W. Wallace
“The tongue is truly sharper than the sword.”
Source: All Our Yesterdays
“The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.”
“The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.”
“The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.”
Source: Spoon River Anthology
“The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.”
Source: Human Nature and other Sermons
“The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!”
Source: The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov
“The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it”
“The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut”
“The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.”
“The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.”
“The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.”
“The tongue of man is a twisty thing.”
“The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent.”
Source: Authentic Life of ... Louis Kossuth ... With a full Report of his Speeches delivered in England ... To which is added his Address to the People of the United States of America
“The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.”
Source: The tragedies of Aeschylus
“The tongue of the righteous are like pure silver, but the mind of the wicked is worth little. The lips of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of sense.”
Source: Game of Destiny
“The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.”
“The tongue talkes at the heads cost.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.”
“The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.”
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
“The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razor's edge invisible.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“The Tonkawa killed him it make my heart hot. I want my people follow after white way. Some white people do that, too.”
“The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.”
“The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only for a thousand or so people at a time. This gives them the opportunity to perform to millions of people.”
“The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.”
“The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.”
Source: H. G. Wells The Dover Reader