T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The warrior woman is filled with the courage, confidence, and inner strength to leave the past behind. She knows that there is no way to express herself fully when she is still carrying burdens that need to be released.”
“The warrior's gift is to willingly storm Hell that Heaven may remain unstained.”
“The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.”
Source: Theory of religion
“The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.”
Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De
“The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.”
Source: The March Family Trilogy
“The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.”
“The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.”
“The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.”
“The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.”
“The Wars of the Roses…were one of the most confused and confusing chapters of English history; in which each usurper, as soon as he had gained the throne, found himself having to defend it against the next; in which so many members of the feuding families were closely inter-related; in which a man could be both hero and villain at one and the same time… One by one, the royal houses of England destroyed each other and themselves.”
“The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.”
“The wars of today, the terrorism of today, are the result of injustice, and that injustice is the Outcome of our greedy, selfish, competitive way of working through commercialization and market forces.”
“The wars on poverty, drugs, and terror are unwinnable, and so they will be perpetual.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.”
Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition
“The was something very satisfying about a smile that had to be earned.”
Source: By Your Side
“The was wrong. Yoo Joonghyuk's regressions were wrong, and the stories the scenarios created were unfair.
– That's why I won't sit still. I'll witness the Conclusion. You say I shouldn't, but I'll see it regardless. I'll definitely jump over that Wall you failed to cross along with my companions, and as for the being beyond it…
I'll kill that guy. I'll end your 'Oldest Dream'.”
“The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.”
“The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain clean for ever and ever (which they ought in all reason to do, considering how much trouble it is), there would be less occasion to grumble; but no sooner is it done, than it requires to be done again. On the whole, I have come to the resolution not to use more than one dish at each meal.”
Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)
“The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.”
Source: The Hobbit
“The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.”
“The Washington bureaucracy is too arrogant and imperial.”
“The Washington establishment does not like the Tea Party. Don't you love all these politicians that run around and campaign as outsiders, anti-establishment, 'I'm not part of that Washington culture.' Well, then join the Tea Party, 'cause that's who's really anti-establishment, that's who's really a bunch of outsiders is the Tea Party. But you don't see those politicians who want to be considered outsiders joining or embracing the Tea Party, do you?”
“The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.”
“The Washington Post is and has been the greatest historic competitor of the New York Times. Half of me, though, the unselfish part of me that is just a journalist, is thrilled. I want newspapers to succeed. Let's take the Guardian, which is a new competitor in the digital age. Does it make me nervous that they compete with us and in fact beat us on the Snowden story? Yes. The part of me that's a competitive journalist and wants to fight and play says: bring them on! It's more fun that way.”
“The Washington Post is quickly trying to become the safe space for Donald Trump deniers, for the Trump-won-the-election deniers. I think the Washington Post is establishing itself as the safe space for anti-Trump delicate snowflakes to go.”
“The Washington Post said that 50% of the contributors of the Republican Party were Jewish and 70% of the Democratic Party. That's 2% and they control America.”
“The Washington Post speaking out against state legislation that he believed would let businesses deny services to gay, lesbian and transgender people. [Tim] Cook himself came out as gay in the pages of Bloomberg Businessweek.”
“The Washington Post was interesting because it's such a politically minded newspaper.”
“The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility--and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is sayingit is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.”
Source: Crazy Salad Plus Nine
“The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two-year suspension for a lawyer found having jailhouse sex with a triple murder defendant she was representing. HaHa! Jokes on you dummies... I'm not really a lawyer!”
“The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.”
“The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.”
“The Washingtonians were used to entering buildings with guns trained on them. Thanks to the Office of Homeland Security, Navy Seals in full combat gear were a common, ordinary sight in this official city. All the measures combined to make a unique security cocktail served up in the nation's capital daily in these terrorist times.
Everyone was considered suspect until proven innocent in the city on the Potomac. In America. Where freedom rings." "THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSIN.”
Source: The President's Assassin: A Deep State Thriller
“The waste basket is the writer's best friend.”
“The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.”
“The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.”
Source: An Iron Will
“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc
“The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.”
Source: House of All Nations
“The Wasteland was an empty car park behind a long abandoned pub. Minah like it because she said it reminded her of the permanence of concrete in stark contrast to the entropy of humanity. Harrison had dubbed it the Wasteland after the TS Eliot poem, because it was full of disillusionment and despair.”
Source: The Boundless Sublime
“The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.”
“The wasting of finite resources is everyones business”
Source: Twilight: Twilight
“the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.”
“The watch word is to wait on God.”
“The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.”
Source: Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod
“The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“The watchful Mishmorat commented while waiting, contemplating Eena’s bare back. “Your people are so plain and pale.”
“Oh?” Eena kinked her neck to look at Niki, zeroing in on her long spotted arms. Her bronze skin was arguably more striking—speckled in beautiful patterns.
“I’m sorry,” the Mishmorat quickly apologized. “I didn’t mean to be rude. It’s just that I’ve never seen such bare skin before. There’s nothing to look at.”
Eena quickly pulled the new t-shirt down over her back. She chuckled at Niki’s comment. “I’ll admit your people are very attractive. But I’m okay with my ‘plainness.’” She glanced over her pale legs before pulling on a clean pair of pants.
“You’re kinda like a clear, cloudless sky,” Niki said, cocking her head wonderingly.
“And you’re like a…..a sky dotted with shapely clouds.”
“Only dark clouds.”
“Storm clouds.”
“Yeah,” Niki grinned devilishly, “That’s me—a sky full of storm clouds.”
Source: Eena, The Curse of Wanyaka Cave
“The watchful mother tarries nigh
Though sleep have closed her infant's eye,
For should he wake, and find her gone.”