T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.”
Source: Wilderness Tips
“Their mum used to joke that Delia had swallowed a bird, and the bird was singing away somewhere deep inside there.”
Source: As Stars Fall
“Their musical ability and performance seems to derive from the past collective experience and presents itself in the individual unconscious today. Through it we tap into something eternal and it is apparent even in how they approach their playing. Perhaps we relate to it because, of any other instrument, the cello has a range that matches the human voice.”
Source: CELLOGIRLS: Identity and Transformation in 2CELLOS Fan Culture
“Their nakedness had long stopped being about exposure it had become shelter. The kind only two ravaged people could build with skin and scars and stillness.”
Source: Beyond Passion and Dreams: Two Souls. One Fire. No Survivors.
“Their names would be entwined—Roman and Iris or Winnow and Kitt because could you truly have one without the other?—”
Source: Letters of Enchantment
“Their normal children generally play on the scrubby bit of grass in front of the playground fence, falling over each other like a mass of puppies in racing-green sweatshirts. Evie regards them with disdain, Thomas with envy and fear. He has inherited a double dose of physical ineptitude from his parents and knows he would be killed if he joined in.”
Source: Are We Having Fun Yet?
“Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.”
Source: A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution
“Their object is disunion.”
Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States
“Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it.”
“Their offense is shakier than Katherine Hepburn after an all-night espresso bender at Starbucks.”
“Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Their one heart is broken, the other heart mended
Enemies are in - forever befriended.
Chronicles of nothingness with lies after lies
A cliché to recall that time surely flies.”
“Their only chance to mix with royalty was while they played Bezique. They never played any other game but this one that had grown out of the French court: it was the game of the cavaliers, a game of waiting between battles.”
Source: Keepers of the House
“Their opinions are not your oxygen. They should only fan your fucking flames.”
“Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!”
Source: Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God
“Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
“Their other books hummed like summer bees. This book throbbed like unspent thunder and when she opened the cover the handwritten words swam in front of her eyes, rearranging themselves every time a letter nearly became clear.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“Their own interest is the only logic they’ll listen to. Not justice, not human dignity, not the liberal freedoms they so profess to value. Profit.”
Source: Babel
“Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.”
“Their own second and sober thoughts.”
Source: An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839
“Their own souls rose and cried
Alarum when they heard the sudden wail
Of stricken freedom and along the gale
Saw her eternal banner quivering wide.”
“Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings...they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion.”
“Their past is littered with the unburied bodies of the people they chose never to become.”
Source: Middlegame
“Their pasts together would remain forever unresolved. It was impossible to move forward when part of you was trapped in the past.”
Source: The Courting of Bristol Keats
“Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.”
Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“Their petals are as delicate as antique lace but I grow them for their leaves, which are scented-- lemon, camphor and rose.
There is Edna Popperwell's Ashby, whose leaves smell not of the advertised rose but (to this nose at least) of frankincense. Attar of Roses has furry leaves which remind me of Turkish delight, Orsett smells of balsam whilst Prince of Orange and Queen of the Lemons speak for themselves, the latter of sherbet lemons rather than the fruit. At the top of the garden is a wayward, rambling Copthorne, whose clusters of marshmallow-pink flowers are entangled amongst the bars of the old iron gate. Others are here not for their scent but for the delicate flowers. The diminutive Shannon sends her frilly parsley leaves and straggle of wandering stems over the table. She has no scent at all, but flowers that resemble salmon-pink stars, which twinkle against the watery-grey zinc of the garden table.
The leaves are nothing to look at but show their magic once you rub them between finger and thumb. I use them for a spritz of inspiration as I write, but I occasionally take them into the kitchen too. If you layer their leaves amongst caster sugar in a jam jar they will infuse the crystals with the essence of lemon, orange or rose. Pick the right leaves and you have delicate, scented sugar with which to crown a summer sponge cake or to infuse in a jug of cream for raspberries.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.”
Source: PS, I Love You
“Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.”
“Their [plant secondary compounds] healthful effects in humans, however, are not well understood, in part because things in nature like coriander and basil can't be patented so there isn't a lot of money being thrown at them, and in part because long-term studies that measure small effects of low doses are expensive and don't yield the kind of unambiguous, major effects you get with pharmaceuticals, but mainly because preventions are never as exciting as cures.”
Source: The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
“Their plastic smiles were so deeply ingrained it would probably take an elite demolition team to remove them.”
Source: The Millionaires' Death Club
“Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.”
Source: A Happy Death
“Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world--they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them. They would all three have made alternatively good courtesans or good wives not by the accident of birth but through the greater accident of finding their man or not finding him.”
Source: Tender is the Night
“Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.”
Source: Contact
“Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.”
Source: Tess of the d'Ubervilles
“Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.”
Source: Winter's Tale
“Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.”
“Their presence in your life will hurt you more than their absence.”
“Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce.”
“Their presumed, reliable fraudulence is what makes their presence, to the mourners, necessary. Because grief, at its worst, is unreal. And it calls for a surreal response.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.”
“Their progeny has blossomed into adulthood
they’ve left the haven of the nest
bound to their mates
busy crafting a new abode afar.”
“Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within their own household...They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.”
“Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. 'Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum' [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves]”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.”
“Their quarry had been cornered in his defenses and their bloodlust was such that they were likely to pay top Julep to watch him escape, so that he might be brutalized and killed before their very eyes, as this was much more gratifying to them than simply watching justice be enacted. They, too, understood that societal constructs for justice were moderate gratification, at best, as they were empty and subject to contradictions and compromises steeped in moral relativism and an unconditional dependence upon overblown semantics that made the law a mockery of itself. As for the ideologies that these hollow systems of jurisprudence sought to define and uphold: these could easily be subjugated through a meticulous analysis of the trivial components of one statute or another. The rule of law had failed them. What the people wanted, in its stead, was rather simple: moral absolutes. Good versus evil. And evil was not to be simply prevailed over. Evil was to be dominated and effectively eliminated, because as long as it was able to while away the time somewhere—in some sweaty prison cell, far away, staring out the barred window with a wry smile, as it plotted its next offensive on the Common Good, a sense of wholeness could not be achieved.”
Source: Don't Forget to Breathe
“Their rage supplies them with weapons.”
“Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.”
Source: Pretties