T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.”
“The worst of it is that while we continue to sink deeper into the muck and mire that we’ve created, in the very descent itself we ignorantly declare that in reality we are rising. And until desperation has crippled us sufficiently to confess the lie that we are lifting ourselves out of this mess, and until the panic of utter hopelessness has driven us to completely surrender all of the pathetic contrivances that we’ve fashioned that have put us there, we will never realize that God has readied solid ground that stands but a single step away”
“The worst of it was that those people out there-the fear, the suffering the wholesale death-did not really touch him. Crake used to say that Homo sapiens sapiens was not hard-wired to individuate other people in numbers above two hundred, the size of a primal tribe, and Jimmy would reduce that number to two.”
Source: Oryx And Crake
“The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
[The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]”
“The worst of lusts is vanity.”
“The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.”
“The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.”
“The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.”
“The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me.”
“The worst of misery
Is when a nature framed for noblest things
Condemns itself in youth to petty joys,
And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life
Gasping from out the shallows.”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.”
Source: Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection
“The worst of Nature brings out the best in our fellow human beings.”
“The worst of our behaviors will always sabotage the best of our dreams.”
“The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.”
“The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.”
“The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven't allowed time to get at them to-to mould them over a little.”
Source: BRAT FARRAR
“The worst of revolutions is a restoration.”
“The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.”
“The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian
“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout.”
“The worst of them do no more than exploit the pornography of suffering and death that saturates modern culture.”
“The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect. The country is rich enough to stand its frightful economic wastage for a long time yet, and still prosper, but it is already so poverty-stricken in its moral resources that the present drain will quickly run them out.”
“The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs”
“The worst of us can never stand in the way of the best of us.”
“The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.”
“The worst old age is that of the mind.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Hazlitt
“The worst ones often come from the best people.”
Source: All Good Deeds
“The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.”
“The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.”
Source: Democracy's First Struggle: Herodotus' Histories
“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.”
“The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.”
Source: Think of a Number (Dave Gurney, No. 1)
“The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.”
Source: Ninth Grade Slays
“The worst pain in the world is shame.”
“The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.”
Source: Life of Pi
“The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.”
“The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.”
“The worst part about a break up isn't the loss of a relationship. It's finding out that the person you once loved doesn't exist anymore. You start mourning the death of somebody who is still alive. It's painful and sobering. It's knowing that the person you loved has vanished into thin air and all that's left behind is their ghost”
“the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth”
“The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.”
“The worst part about being mothered was her own pathetic need to be mothered.”
Source: Walkaway
“The worst part about being sick is not getting any sympathy from my wife. She says I have the "man-flu." The Urban Dictionary defines "man-flu" as "an illness that causes the male to be completely helpless and sicker than any other family member." In females it is known as a cold.”
Source: Don't Throw the Believer Out with the Baptistry Water: The Best of The Point Is... Volume 1
“The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.”
“The worst part about her new chambers was that all these wardrobes and vanities and drapes meant there was no space--none at all--for a bookcase. Who on earth could feel comfortable enough to sleep in a room with no books?”
Source: My Lady Jane
“The worst part about loving someone, Merripen, is that there will always be things you can't protect her from. Things beyond your control. You finally realize there is something worse than dying . . . and that is having something happen to her. You have to live with that fear always. But you have to take the bad part, if you want the good part." Kev looked at him bleakly. "What's the good part?" A smile touched Cam's lips. "All the rest of it is the good part," he said, and went.”
Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise
“The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don't know why it's just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it's not happening just in the morning for my sister.”
“The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.”
“The worst part about the job is the travel, which takes you away from family and friends and important dates and hockey games and tournaments that your kids are in and things like that.”
“The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis that they induce in people who aren't quite zombies yet. The rest of us un-zombies turn our heads, hoping the ghouls will just go away.”