T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There are dangers surrounding innocuousness and consensus and habit. ISO organizes hundreds of people on technical committees who are, no doubt, trying to do their best. But the standards in some cases end up reinforcing violence and destruction thousands of miles away.”
“There are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are not providing them sufficient protection, that they can be left behind in this process. And that's what we have to focus on.”
“There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.”
“There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I’ll carry them for the rest of my days.”
Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.”
“There are dark shadows on earth, but the lights are always brighter.”
“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.”
Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
“There are days I am whole
Some days I feel bruised
A silhouette of verse emerges
To mirror my mood
And with every word
I undress my soul
Baring it to the world”
Source: The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse
“There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.”
“There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.”
“There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.”
“There are days,' Nesta said as she paused in front of the door to her room across from mine, 'when I want to ask him if he remembers the years he almost let us starve to death.'
'You spent every copper I could get, too,' I reminded her.
'I knew you could always get more. And if you couldn't, then I wanted to see if he would ever try to do it himself, instead of carving those bits of wood. If he would actually go out and fight for us. I couldn't take care of us, not the way you did. I hated you for that. But I hated him more. I still do.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“There are days now
when I water my plants
and feel I’m growing everything
you never asked to leave behind.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until I clear my head, or think of another book idea.”
“There are days on which Julia does not open letters. She is overcome, as I understand it, by a sort of superstitious dread, in which she is persuaded that letters bode her no good: they will be from the Gas Board, and demand money; or from the Inland Revenue, and demand accounts; or from some much valued friend, and demand an answer.”
Source: The Shortest Way to Hades
“There are days that build bridges
and days that burn them.”
“There are days that I get neurotic with the instrument [violin]. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a miracle, the way the whole thing works as an acoustical whole, so perfectly balanced that any little thing will - which also means the weather, the humidity.”
“There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.”
“There are days we have anger swilling in our minds towards a person. The fact is, you haven’t arrive at the situation yet, or even talked to them. Back up, and think how much easier it would be to handle this possible situation with kindness. No matter how much they could anger you, you take the higher road. Any validation they seek or issue they have will turn hollow, if you keep calm.”
“There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.”
Source: Rose: Poems
“There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make it happen - or you think, "What does this all add up to?" You don't know what to do with the footage, and you've asked a lot of people for their time and a lot of people to be patient with you. And then you lose faith that you can actually make a worthwhile story out of this.”
“There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.”
“There are days when everything
feels like a metaphor
for your having died
There are days
when nothing does”
Source: 13th Balloon
“There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet, this is where Heaven starts.. see within yourself, if you can find it. I walked through the field in front of the house, lots of swallows flying, everywhere! Some very near me..it was magical. "We are already one, yet we know it not.”
“There are days when I am envious of my hens:
when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure
as a single daily egg.”
“There are days when I can hear men tying their shoe laces in the gallery.”
“There are days when I definitely look in the mirror and go, "All right, I need to find a cream." I can't foresee myself ever going under the knife, but then again, I'm only in my mid-thirties. Maybe it's different when you're in your mid-sixties.”
“There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.”
“There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics.”
“There are days when I double fault.”
“There are days when I feel like I’ve seen enough, done enough, felt enough. When I call my wandering days over and slowly accept the quiet life from here on. When the dreams of making waves are a vague memory and the songs I meant to sing feel more like a finished painting, something to just observe and hang on the wall from now on, to those who wish to observe it. But then the night falls and the morning rise and horizons are calling once again and I’m on my way. Forests fresh and pastures new. And most of the time I’m fine with this.
I’m learning to be fine with this.
So maybe that’s what settling into this world means. To simply, and as hard as it is, just settle into your own way of living—your own pace, your own rhythm—and not think too much about it. Just wake up and let your legs wander where they need to wander no matter where that may lead and just simply trust your path. There is a difference between what you want and what you wish to want. What you’d like to do and what you wish you’d like to do. I’m learning to not wish, but just do.”
Source: Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
“There are days when I find myself bawling in the parking lot right before work because I feel like I'm wasting my life working for someone else's dream instead of my own.”
“There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can't miss a ball.”
“There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.”
“There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.”
Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.”
“There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.”
“There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle
And dark desperate hours that nobody sees
My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain
My head in my hands down on my knees”
“There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.”
Source: The Summer I Learned to Fly
“There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.”
“There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.”
“There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.”
“There are days when I would gladly hit “Return” and please refund my debt to Sallie Mae to stop those impossible bills from coming, but it is not for the fact that I believe I’ve been cheated.
I, like most millennials, am disillusioned with the net return of academia, but I have not been cheated by education.
I have been cheated by a corrupt system, and it is education that has taught me the difference.
If I could say education had a product, I would like to say it is abundance.
But if education had a product, it would be an empty box.
And if successful education had a product, it would be the match ignited which set that box on fire and set the mind upon which every essay on “knowledge” ever written in history was cast into the fire to burn.”
“There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.”
“There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.”
“There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing”
“There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.”
Source: Life Expectancy
“There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.”