T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.”
Source: Birds and Green Places: A Selection from the Writings of W.H. Hudson
“There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it -benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.”
“There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.”
“There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.”
“There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.”
Source: The Brandons, and others
“There are few poets today who can equal, in their esthetic exploitation of language, in their depth of commitment to their medium, in their range of conceptual understanding, in the purity of their closed forms, the work of Nabokov, Borges, Beckett, Barth, Broch, Gaddis, or Calvino, or any of half-a-dozen extraordinarily gifted South Americans.”
Source: The World Within the Word
“There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.”
“There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.”
“There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.”
Source: The Works of Christina Queen of Sweden: Containing Maxims and Sentences in Twelve Centuries, and Reflections on the Life and Actions of Alexander the Great
“There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek power over others have gained the upperhand against those that seek freedom. By harming wealth creation,they cause even more strain on society. Historically, this is nothingnew. State domination over its subjects has roots that connect statism,totalitarianism, communism, and socialism to more modern-day variantsof liberalism and progressivism. It is a constant fight and we mustwin.”
“There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.”
“There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?”
“There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.”
Source: Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -
“There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.”
“There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.”
“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.”
“There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.”
Source: Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
“There are few secrets in football. So execute.”
“There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.”
Source: Traits of American Life
“There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.”
Source: Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin
“There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.”
“There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night”
“There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.”
“There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.”
“there are few souls
who live with their
madness
keeping themselves
alive through all
the trials and
tribulations
they fight
during the day hours
and struggle
all through their life
but they never quit
or opt something else
for every night when
they go to sleep in their bed
they ask and question themselves
and make peace with their mind
they can never betray their soul
there are only few of such souls
alive and out of those few
i know
i’m one of them.
-
(living with madness)”
“There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.”
Source: Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
“There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.”
Source: The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
“There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.”
“There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.”
Source: Elementary Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical
“There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.”
“There are few takers for the quiet heart.”
Source: The pleasure of my company
“There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.”
“There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.”
“There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.”
Source: A Widow For One Year
“There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings, our ocean depths and fringes are full of luminous beings, creatures lit from the inside. And they have, for many centuries, enchanted us, like glowing missionaries of wonder, emissaries of awe.
Is there anything more beautiful than living light?”
Source: Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
“There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.”
“There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“There are few things ever dreamed of, smoked or injected that have as addictive an effect on our brains as technology. This is how our devices keep us captive and always coming back for more. The definitive Internet act of our times is a perfect metaphor for the promise of reward: we search. And we search. And we search some more, clicking that mouse like – well, like a rat in a cage seeking another “hit”, looking for the elusive reward that will finally feel like enough.”
Source: Maximum Willpower
“There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.”
“There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.”
Source: Every Day
“There are few things I hate more than feeling weak. Needing help or failing top the list. The worst, however, is knowing that all three just happened.”
Source: Lacrimosa
“There are few things in life as steadying as someone you have to be brave for.”
Source: Clockwork Boys
“There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.”
“There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.”
“There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life. That joy is increased when those efforts help someone understand the teachings of the Savior and that person decides to obey them, is converted, and joins His Church.”
“There are few things in life worse than a drop-in. The supposed whimsy and fun therein are fabrications only promulgated by uninspired situation comedies, pablum made for the enjoyment of fools. For individuals with actual things to do, it is no different than truncating that person’s life by the duration of the visit.”
Source: In Limbo
“There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.”
“There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.”