T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.”
“There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.”
“There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.”
Source: What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life
“There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.”
Source: Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition
“There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.”
Source: The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
“There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.”
“There is nothing quite like the drama and suspense of a penalty shootout. The player tasked with taking the penalty can thunder the ball home or smash it against the crossbar, or even sky it completely over the bar. Nothing will bring housewives out of the kitchen or shush the pub into complete silence quite like the theatre of the penalty shootout, no matter who’s playing. No one can be apathetic about the penalty shootout
It’s as if for just those few seconds a player’s soul is laid bare for the entire world to see. The camera pans in and we can clearly see the hesitancy and heroics, the expectation and exultation, the self-doubt or self-glorification, the uncertainty and relief ….. or disappointment.
Nothing matches the thrill!”
Source: Gunpowder Soup
“There is nothing quite like the feeling of accomplishment at the end of a hard workout or race.”
Source: Coach, Run, Win
“There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge”
“There is nothing quite like the unnatural power that the death of a loved one has on a person. It is a pain that no medicine can cure. It is a tumor rooted in the bones and the soul that no surgery can cut out. It is an inescapable reality that insists on being lived in. The brightest days seem dark. The warmest colors appear cold. So powerful is the experience that it can dull the senses in a way that takes a person out of life itself a death by proxy.”
Source: Horizon: A Novella
“There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.”
Source: Seduction and Betrayal
“There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".”
“There is nothing quite so comforting like being part of a community.”
“There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.”
“There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.”
“There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.”
“There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.”
“There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.”
Source: A Discord of Trumpets: An Autobiography
“There is nothing quite so terrifying as the descension of the human mind into insanity.”
Source: Nocte
“There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.”
“There is nothing real like the reality of your existence.”
“There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.”
“There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.”
Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution
“There is nothing ridiculous in love.”
“There is nothing right and wrong until anyone defines it.”
Source: HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good
“There is nothing right or wrong in love. Where there is love, then there is nothing but only love.”
Source: Undying Affinity
“There is nothing romantic about childhood. Children can enjoy their childhood only if the adults create the necessary atmosphere.”
“There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.”
Source: The Middle Span
“There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.”
“There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.”
“There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.”
Source: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
“There is nothing sadder than remembering how wonderful a ruined place or someone once was!”
“There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.”
“There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.”
“There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.”
“There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where mass murder is concerned. We have been in this world long enough to know that by now and to understand that nonviolent conflict resolution informed by mutual compassion is the far better option.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.”
“There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.”
“There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to results.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.”
“There is nothing serious in Mortality”
“There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.”
Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays
“There is nothing sexier than sword fight.”
“There is nothing shameful about loving yourself. The shame is in NOT loving the unique and brilliant individual that you are.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“There is nothing shameful about making an honest living.”
Source: Second Chinese Daughter
“There is nothing shameful or reprehensible about putting your needs first. In fact, by doing so, you can pursue your purpose efficiently and be generous to others at the same time.”
“There is nothing simple about attraction."
"Nevertheless-" She stopped, unable to remember what it was she was trying to say. He was close.
"Shall I show you how complicated attraction can be?" The words were deep and velvety, the sound of temptation. His lips were nearly on hers, she could feel their movement as he spoke, barely brushing against her.
He waited, hovering just above her, for her to respond. She was consumed with an unbearable need to touch him. She tried to speak, but no words came. She couldn't form thoughts. He had invaded her senses, leaving her with no other choice but to close the scant distance between them.
The moment their lips touched, Ralston took over, his arms coming around her and dragging her into his lap to afford him better access to her. This kiss was vastly different than their first one- it was heavier, more intense, less careful. This kiss was a force of nature. Callie moaned as his hand ran up the side of her neck cupping her jaw, tilting her head to better align their mouths. His lips played across hers, his tongue running along them before he pulled away just barely and searched her half-lidded eyes. A ghost of a smile crossed his lips.
"So passionate," he whispered against her lips as he drove his fingers into her hair, scattering hairpins and sending her curls tumbling around them. "So eager. Open for me."
And then he claimed her mouth in a searing kiss, and she did open for him, matching him stroke for stroke, caress for caress. She became caught in a web of long, slow, drugging kisses, and all she could think was that she had to be closer to him.”
Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
“There is nothing simple about something (love) that can fill you with the greatest joy you have ever known. It can make men build cities, crush enemies, seek out ways to move mountains, and bring even the greatest to his knees. There is nothing simple about something that can rip the very seams of your soul in half, shred every amount of dignity you've ever had, and strip every inhibition from who you are.”
“There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.”