T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Take today, multiply it by 7,300 days. Are you comfortable with today being the rest of your life? What will you change?”
“Take Tom Jones and mix him with Enrico Caruso, the Italian tenor-cum-castrato singer. Then add tons of pathetic love songs, faked sex appeal and musical kleptomania focusing on Western hits from the 1970s. Spice it up with a political flexibility rare even for Central European standards and a personal status close to that of the Pope. What do you get? Karel Gott, Czech pop music's most mega-super, long-lasting and brightest star.”
Source: The Czechs in a Nutshell
“Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)
“Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.”
“Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don't dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it's not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.”
“Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable. The signature is almost graffiti or a tagging system, yet it can become more important than the subject.”
“Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life”
“Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.”
Source: The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many thoughtful things on impulse, you will develop a lively and interesting personality- gracious, friendly, and likeable.”
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
“Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.”
“Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test”
“Take up the cup of salvation, call on the Name of Lord God, Our Saviour.”
“Take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”
Source: Ephesians (Bible #49), ESV
“Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.”
“Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.”
“Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.”
Source: Strengthen My Spirit
“Take us away. Bring us downriver. Carry me west or south or north, in any direction but the one I have come from.”
Source: Broken Throne
“Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us, I am almost astonished that there are so many industrious and ambitious ones to be found - although I acknowledge, with extreme sorrow, that there are some who never were and never will be serviceable to society. And have you not a similar class among yourselves?”
“Take us to the in-between,
Where earth meets sky, and wake meets dream.
And time rushes by, unseen.
Take us to the infinite night,
Where up is down, and left is right,
And dark vanquishes light.”
Source: Relapse
“Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to secede from the Union. Suppose Washington gave each parent even a $5,000 voucher - that wouldn't mean less money available per student. To the contrary, holding total education expenditures constant, it'd mean more money per student remaining in public schools.”
“Take Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic, where xenophobic demagogues have been allowed to turn the law-abiding workers who prop up their economies into barbaric freeloaders, all simply to further their nefarious ends.”
“Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.”
“Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.”
“Take what fame or fortune comes your way. My first bestseller was a cookbook, so remember to be open to trying new things. From that experience I learned things about marketing a book that benefitted me greatly and, combined with my sales management experience with Fortune 500 companies, I was able to launch a string of bestsellers.”
“Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told me it was too touristy. He gave me an address on the other side of the island, which turned out to be a palace where I lived for four years.”
“Take what he is giving you and make it your shield. It's hard to kill a man when everyone's eyes are on him.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.”
Source: The Concubine's Daughter
“Take what is good from the past
and carve a new path.”
Source: Sacred Space, mind body soul after Sexual Abuse: An Inspiring Healing Guide for Survivors By; Jan Porter
“Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.”
“Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.”
“Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.”
“Take what the old-church
found in Mithra's tomb,
candle and script and bell,
take what the new-church spat upon
and broke and shattered.”
Source: Trilogy
“Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.”
“Take what you can from your dreams, Make them as real as anything...”
“Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.”
“Take what you can use and let the rest go by.”
“Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.”
Source: First love
“Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly”
“Take what you got and fly with it.”
“Take what you have and make what you want.”
“Take what you have learned, and move on.”
“Take what you have of what remains, take the colors of what is still left, for this is the flame that will set your soul ablaze before that moment comes when the leaf trembles shuddering in its last joy, the robin cries knowing it is the last song. Sing, Sing, O Sojourner, no season is meant to stay. The deeps are filled with a bitter sweet nostalgia... the cinnamon, nutmeg, cider roast smell, the earth sparkling, feasting on the colors, the grounds merry making as the leaves softly play, for this is the life's sacred performance art, as the earth is playing the grand finale before it slips in the winter's white silence....”
“Take what you need from education and store the rest.”
“Take what you need. Leave what you’re not yet ready to hold.”
Source: ROOTED: The Root. The Rise. The Overflow
“Take what you need, and find solace where you can.”
“Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.”
“Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.”
“Take what you want from the universe, but beware when the universe is ready to take from you.”