T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.”
Source: Poems
“The traveler knows the grace of travel.”
“The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he beforehand anticipates. In a moral point of view, the effect ought to be, to teach him good-humored patience, freedom from selfishness, the habit of acting for himself, and of making the best of every occurrence.”
“The traveler must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalization. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping vague conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.”
Source: The Braindead Megaphone
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”
“The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler
“The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.”
“The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
“The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.”
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.”
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
“The traveler was dismayed. "Do you hate me so much that you would run from me?"
And the errata responded, her voice heavy with misery, "It is not the future that terrifies me, but the inevitability of its ending. But the I saw you leaving the city and knew I could turn away no longer. You have met your destiny time and time again. Now I must meet mine.”
Source: The Ashfire King
“The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
[Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]”
“The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.”
“The travelers’ dances were wild and carefree and, summer after summer, Penelope learned to reveal her deepest truths through movement. The choreography of freedom had a hypnotic sway.”
Source: The Measure of Gold
“The Travelers say that it is not in the human nature to kill or harm anyone. They believe that war is so abhorrent to the human spirit that it can destroy those who are victorious more surely than it destroys those who are killed.”
Source: Children of the Dead City
“The traveling and adventure always lift my spirits soaring with exhilaration.”
“The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.”
Source: Poems
“The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we'd have an accident in the rain. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.”
“The traveller has reached the end of the journey!”
“The traveller is the one who takes his truth with him into strange lands. The moment he forgets his truth, he ceases to be a traveller, and becomes the strange land.”
Source: Warhawk
“The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.”
Source: Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
“The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.”
Source: Persons and Places: My host the world
“The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.”
“The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.”
“The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.”
“The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.”
“The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“The tray held herb tea, buttered bread, fruit and sheep's-milk yogurt mixed with honey, something Andie particularly liked first thing in the morning. It was, in fact, breakfast in bed.”
Source: One Good Knight
“The treacheries of ambition never cease.”
“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”
Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
“The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.”
Source: Smoulder
“The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“The treadmill is a corollary to the suburb and the autotropolis: a device with which to go nowhere in places where there is nowhere to go.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.”
Source: Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland
“The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.”
Source: Don Quixote
“The treasure chest is infinite once you believe in your unfathomable potential to do, have and become anything that you want.”
“The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.”
“The treasure is hidden in diversity.”
Source: Quantraz
“The treasure is not only gold, silver, gems, etc. The most important treasure of this world is family and friends.”
Source: Galaxy Pirates
“The Treasure of life is not in "Rest" but in "Quest".”
“The treasure of life, learning.”
“The treasure of life should motivate you to do your very best.”
“The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.”
“The treasure that you seek is hidden in time.”
“The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.”
Source: The Treasure the Sierra Madre
“The treasure you seek is in the work you're avoiding”
“The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road