T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The window is where curiosities meet. Insiders are curious about the outside, and outsiders are curious about the inside! When the window is opened, those who wonder flow towards the place they wonder, those inside are out, those outside are in!”
“The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die.”
“The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.”
“The window of opportunity to plan and prepare for the end of his life had closed gradually. Any cracks left open to talk candidly were tenuous and fleeting.”
Source: A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
“The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light”
“The window of X Factor opportunity opens up in the closing seconds of a race-you might be sprinting at the time or just hanging one, trying to get across the finish line. With a supreme act of will, you can prolong your effort, essentially fighting off the inevitable lactic acid shutdown. You'll have little time for contemplating the options: either wholeheartedly go for it, or back off. You must train your X Factor to unequivocally respond the way you want-go for it. Once the window is closed, it's closed forever.”
“The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.”
“The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.”
Source: August
“The window to the past opened up to her like a dragon's maw, dark and jagged, an abyss licked with fire.”
Source: A Touch of Midnight
“The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.”
“The window was still open.” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever”
Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.”
Source: Flame and Shadow
“The windows and doors will be boarded up and the plants allowed to creep over the building. Moss will grow over the platform and, for a while, youths will come and spray paint and smash what they can - I like to think that this is their way of mourning its loss.”
Source: Untidy Towns
“The windows are empty holes lined with glass teeth.”
Source: The New Hunger
“The windows in the soup kitchen are never opened, and for that reason the aroma of old meals lingers in corners and rises from the table tops - which are never washed - when the steam from the freshly cooked food brings them back to life.”
Source: Hotel Savoy
“The windows let in a perfect light, a vibrant light such as you get in the north, where a kind of grey gauze turns the sun to silver. And such solitude, such quiet.”
Source: The Bells of Bruges
“The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask”
“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
Source: John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection
“The windows of opportunity for growth can be few and far between. Perhaps, it is our willingness to approach them which is infrequent.”
Source: Waldmeer
“The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!”
“The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done, and rightly done. All these act within the Equilibrium. From the hurricane and the great whale's sounding to the fall of a dry leaf and the gnat's flight, all they do is done within the balance of the whole. But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.”
Source: The farthest shore
“The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.”
Source: The Life of Luther Written by Himself
“The winds are out of breath.”
“The winds are shifting. Pay attention to the sands of time. The grains of wisdom are there to guide us.”
“The winds are strong and it will make a tender flower like you fall,
Let me hold your tenderness for a moment,
Forgetting all pains that the tenderness has caused....”
“The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round,
Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound,
Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam,
Our arms are waving, our lips are apart.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“The winds blow swift and sure
As I steer my little sailboat
Towards the island shore
And solid ground once more”
Source: Lighthouse, inspiration
“The winds must come from somewhere when they blow…There must be reasons why the leaves decay.
(From Auden's "If I Could Tell You”
Source: The Novel Habits of Happiness
“The winds of change are blowing across Ontario.”
“The winds of change are blowing at the RNC.”
“The winds of change may unsettle sails, yet they also carry the promise of new horizons waiting to be explored.”
“The winds of change whisper that tomorrow holds wonders we cannot yet conceive.”
Source: LinguaVerse: A Journey through Language Realms
“The winds of fortune tend to favour the sails of those who politely yell out to it, 'Nice to meet you!”
“The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.”
“The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.”
“The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.”
“The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.”
“The winds of today carry our tomorrow.”
“The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.”
“The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.”
Source: Early Poems
“The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.”
Source: The People's Pottage
“The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.”
“The winds that never moderation knew,
Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
“The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.”
“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.”
“The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.”
Source: The Poetical works
“The windy satisfaction of the tongue.”
Source: The Iliad ...
“the windy sky
Cries out a literate despair.”
Source: Selected poems