T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“There is a plant called the ghost pipe, because it is ghostly white, almost blue. Were you to cut open this flower and study it, you'd find no chlorophyll inside. It can grow in the dark, under the cover of fallen leaves and undergrowth in forests, under soil. It doesn't need to photosynthesize, because it is a parasite. It uses fungal networks to suck energy from photosynthesizing trees. Its roots look like clusters of tiny fingers that grope toward and connect with huge white webs of fungus that in turn connect with the thick roots of trees.”
Source: Woman, Eating
“There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.”
Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb
“There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.”
“There is a pleasure in being with them,' he says. 'Taking what we want, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in being awful.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.”
“There is a pleasure in not being pleased.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.”
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.”
“There is a pleasure that is born of pain.”
“There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.”
Source: Harbours of Memory
“There is a plurality to our being: We are one heart with many parts. We are one psyche holding
many minds and many psychologies. This opens doors, and they are doors that urgently need
opening... while we are not responsible for the conditioning that’s brought us where
we are now, we are indeed accountable for what we do with it.”
“There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us. At certain times it is the poetry of life and the mythic imagination of the soul that become necessary in order to heal the wounds inflicted by an excess of reason or an overuse of force.”
Source: The Genius Myth
“There is a poet in all of us. Once we experience love and pain, the thought of expressing our feelings sprouts from within us as the leaves and roots do from a seed.”
“there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.”
“There is a poetry of rage and a poetry of hope.
Each fuels the other, looks in the mirror and sees
the other. Or wields the other. Isn’t it funny
to imagine hope, not much more than a toddler,
wielding rage in its fist like a cudgel?”
“There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.”
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
“There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.”
“There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.”
Source: Sight Unseen/The Confession
“There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.”
“There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.”
“There is a point at which methods devour themselves.”
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
“There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.”
“There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.”
“There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.”
“There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.”
“There is a point. I don't know what is it, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt--it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.
That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing. LIVING.”
Source: Beautiful Redemption
“There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.”
“There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: adventavit asinus, / pulcher et fortissimus. (Translation: The ass arrives, beautiful and most brave.)”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.”
“There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.”
“There is a point in most abusive relationships when it occurs to the beaten party that they are guilty of putting their face in the way of someone else's fist.”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.”
“There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.”
Source: One Day
“There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.”
“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining "punishment" and "being supposed to punish" hurts it, arouses fear in it. "Is it not enough to render him undangerous? Why still punish?
Punishing itself is terrible." With this question, herd morality, the morality of timidity, draws its ultimate consequence.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.”
“There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.”
“There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through it. It is the point at which anthropogenic (human-caused) warming triggers huge releases of carbon dioxide from warming oceans, or similar releases of both carbon dioxide and methane from melting permafrost, or both. Most climate scientists think that point lies not far beyond 2 degrees C hotter (3.6 degrees F).”
“There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.”
Source: The Comedians
“There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its retinue of worlds is only one system among many, then many other systems will be like ours: home to life. Indeed, to the extent that this is true, we should be prepared for the possibility that, even in the Milky Way galaxy, billions of planets may be carpeted by the dirty, nasty business known as life.”
“There is a point to everything or nothing at all, depending on your worldview.”
Source: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.”
“There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.”
“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-”
“There is a point when tears don't work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.”
Source: Live for a Living
“There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs. A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit crumbles. Some say that after much grief and drowning in tears, it is possible to pick up the pieces and carefully repair what was shattered.
I say nay.
For the chains of despair have no key, and the soul destroyed by that monster can never hope to be unaffected. There are things done that cannot be undone.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.”