T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The wolf caught me in its jaws
but when I cried out,
other only said:
I have seen the wolf many times
and he has not bitten me”
Source: Artemis Made Me Do It
“The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.”
“The wolf does not need a shepherd; the shepherd is the fate of the weak!”
“The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.”
“The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you”
Source: Of Wolves and Men
“The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.”
Source: Rimbaud
“The wolf in him demanded he kick (the door) down and claim her. The man in him just wanted to hold her close and protect her. He’d never been so torn. So confused. So damned horny!”
Source: Night Play
“The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“The wolf is living for the earth.”
Source: A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems
“The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.”
“The wolf is not bound to its shape. It can change form at will, transforming to a whale when it must swim in the sea. Seeing the whale, no one would ever suspect it had once been a wolf.”
Source: Olympus Bound
“The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.”
Source: Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
“The wolf legends demanded immediate revenge. Groups of colonists entered the forest, killed the predators, and restored their mastery over nature in a day… the legends offered a quick solution: regeneration through violence”
Source: Vicious: Wolves and Men in America
“The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything—except the truth.”
Source: The Son of Neptune
“The wolf may be taught to heel, but never to forget the taste of its own freedom.”
“the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses”
“The wolf must die in his own skin.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.”
Source: Never Cry Wolf
“The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.”
“The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.”
“The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way.”
“The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.”
Source: Cloaked in Red
“The wolf stared down at me, paws still on my chest, its shaggy tail thumping from side tot side and spraying us both with snow. It seemed like...it expected me to do something. Maybe my mind was completley gone, because there was only one thing I could thing of right now that might satisfy it. I reached up en awkwardly patted the side of its head, since that was al i could reach. "Nice puppy," I whispered, and passed out.”
“The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“The Wolf. The single most productive engineer you’ll meet. You’ve heard of the 10x engineer, but I am here to tell you about the Wolf. They are engineers, and they consistently exhibit the following characteristics: They appear to exist outside of the well-defined process that we’ve defined to get things done, but they appear to suffer no consequences for not following these rules. Everyone knows they’re the Wolf, but no one ever calls them the Wolf. They have a manager, but no one really knows who it is. They have a lot of meetings, but none of them are scheduled. Inviting them to your meeting is a crap shoot. They understand how “the system” works, they understand how to use “the system” to their advantage, and they understand why “the system” exists, but they think “the system” is a bit of a joke. You can ask a Wolf to become a manager, but they’ll resist it. If you happen to convince them to do it, they will do a fine job, but they won’t stay in that role long. In fact, they’ll likely quit managing when you least expect it. Lastly, and most importantly, the Wolf generates disproportionate value for the company with their unparalleled ability to identify and rapidly work on projects essential to the future of the company.”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“The Wolf trots to and fro,
The world lies deep in snow,
The raven from the birch tree flies,
But nowhere a hare, nowhere a roe,
The roe -she is so dear, so sweet -
If such a thing I might surprise
In my embrace, my teeth would meet,
What else is there beneath the skies?
The lovely creature I would so treasure,
And feast myself deep on her tender thigh,
I would drink of her red blood full measure,
Then howl till the night went by.
Even a hare I would not despise;
Sweet enough its warm flesh in the night.
Is everything to be denied
That could make life a little bright?
The hair on my brush is getting grey.
The sight is failing from my eyes.
Years ago my dear mate died.
And now I trot and dream of a roe.
I trot and dream of a hare.
I hear the wind of midnight howl.
I cool with the snow my burning jowl,
And on to the devil my wretched soul I bear.”
“The wolf turned to Rachel. She was afraid to run, afraid fleeing would make it chase her. Somewhere in the stored files of her mind, she remembered one should not look directly at a menacing dog, but she couldn’t take her eyes from it.”
Source: Reluctant Medium
“The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.”
“The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he”
“The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves.”
“The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.”
“The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert
“The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, "he talks too much to customers". He can talk to me all day.”
“The wolves are coming.”
Source: Hunting Red, Part I
“The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors.”
“The wolves came running swiftly
To rend the battle-fallen.”
Source: King Harald's Saga
“The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.”
Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel
“The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.”
Source: In Time of Peril
“The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.”
“The wolves were now permanently mute out of almost three week long perpetual fear of the penguin, and this was agreeable to the penguin, who was much pleased, contrary to the redundancy of the latter part of this sentence where he certainly was not pleased.”
Source: The Ghost Therapist...And Other Grand Delights
“The wolves will get you if the moths won't.”
Source: The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
“The woman and her dragon.
“You’re mine,” he said.
She smiled. “And you’re mine.”
Source: Firestorm
“The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.”
“The woman at the desk was a university graduate, young, colourless, spectacled, and intensely disagreeable. She had a fixed suspicion that no one — at least, no male person — ever consulted works of reference except in search of pornography. As soon as you approached she pierced you through and through with a flash of her pince-nez and let you know that your dirty secret was no secret from HER. After all, all works of reference are pornographical, except perhaps Whitaker’s Almanack. You can put even the Oxford Dictionary to evil purposes by looking up words like —— and ——.”
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“The woman at the next table is making eyes at you,” Lanie said, whispering conspiratorially.
“Really? What does she make them out of? Cloth?”
Source: The Do-Over
“The woman at the other end of the room stood unmoving, her posture a slender question mark, silhouetted against the light from the window. She had large dark eyes surrounded by thick lashes that appeared damp from crying. Her sable-brown hair was looped into a careless braid down her back, and she wore a gauzy skirt and blouse, an apron, a pair of oven mitts and espadrilles tied at the ankles.
The two of them stared at one another. The stranger shifted, stepping into a shaft of light through the open window. She had the face of an old Hollywood movie star, with an aquiline nose and full lips. She wore little or no makeup; her olive-toned skin gave her an air of unstudied elegance, needing no embellishment.”
Source: The Apple Orchard
“The woman before him did not seem trapped. She had a calm about her instead, as if she finally knew what, and whom, she could count on. For it was never as much as any of us like to hope - the key was to know whom one could trust to be there and when, in good times and in bad.”
Source: The Jane Austen Society
“The woman behind the bar called out: ‘Why do you stand like hypnotized fish? Did you come to drink beer or to eat food?’
‘Be patient,’ said Gersen. ‘We are making our decision.’
The remark annoyed the woman. Her voice took on a coarse edge. “Be patient,’ you say? All night I pour beer for crapulous men; isn’t that patience enough? Come over here, backwards; I’ll put this spigot somewhere amazing, at full gush, and then we’ll discover who calls for patience!”
Source: The Face