T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There is something fragrant to touch at every turn; scented geranium leaves to rub or pots of thyme to tear at. Such temptations would be spotted at any time of year but today, in this scorching sunshine, everything is heightened; the intensity of rose oil from the pelargonium leaves, lemon from the thyme and even the peppermint and pepper and notes of potted basil sing loud and true in the bright sunlight. Butterflies-- pale-blue hoppers, cabbage whites and even red admirals- head from bloom to bloom, one even coming to see what is on my plate.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.”
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
“There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.”
Source: The Rum Diary: A Novel
“There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.”
“There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.”
“There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.”
Source: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
“There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.”
Source: A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America
“There is something fundamentally wrong about the way we [americans] are moving as a country, when billionaires are able to buy elections as a result of Citizens United. There`s something fundamentally wrong when 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent.”
“There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.”
Source: Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays
“There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.”
Source: The Search for the Dice Man
“There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.”
“There is something going on in Kauai which seems to be more toxic than the other Hawaiian islands.”
“There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”
“There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.”
“There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed.”
“There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.”
“There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.”
“There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.”
Source: Motivation Lombardi Style
“There is something great and terrible about suicide.”
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation.”
“There is something haunting in the light of the moon.”
Source: Lord Jim
“There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.”
Source: Lord Jim
“There is something here that frightens me. When I figure out what it is that frightens me, I shall also know what I love here. Fear has always guided me toward what I desire. And because I desire, I fear. Often it was fear that took me by the hand and led me. Fear leads me to danger. And everything I love is risky.”
“There is something hidden in each sensation.”
“There is something holy about taking up the task of stewarding a life, especially our own. If we come to this work at all, we must come with humble expectations and a willingness to be led. We submit to the process, trusting that the science is sound, even when what we’re called to do hurts.”
Source: Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death
“There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.”
“There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.”
“There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.”
“There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.”
“There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait.”
Source: The Collected Stories
“There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist, but you are talking through them to people who presumably are fans of the Rolling Stones. The interviews give you a chance to say a few things and maybe clear up some of the things people read about the band.”
“There is something I think we share, which is, of course, an appreciation for Helmut Lang. I think at a certain point he really changed so many things in fashion. I'm a bit younger than Helmut, but from my point of view he provided a true entrance into this new way of thinking - not being invaded into couture.”
“There is something I want to tell you. But it's going to become more obvious over time. And you wouldn't believe it if I told you, or at least you wouldn't want to believe it. This is one of those things that must be discovered for oneself."
"Audrey, what the devil are you talking about?"
Folding her narrow arms across her chest, his sister-in-law contemplated him sternly. And yet a strange little smile kept tugging at the corners of her lips. "If you are at all a gentleman," she finally said, "you will call on Beatrix tomorrow and apologize for hurting her feelings. Go during one of your walks with Albert- she'll be glad to see him, if not you.”
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“There is something immaculate about loneliness which only lonely people can understand”
“There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.”
Source: Fifty Shades of Jungle Fever
“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.”
“There is something impoverishing about this mutual mistrust, this mutual suspicion - something mean, and they do not know how to rise above it. Yet both are nostalgic for the same thing: the good life, or at least the fantasy of it.”
Source: The Other Side of the World
“There is something in a man's fate that has eyes that remember whether he has someone to come home to or not.”
Source: Live and Remember
“There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man’s mind. He will pray and blaspheme, and will curse the day he ever heard of it, and will let his last hour come upon him unawares, still believing that he missed it only by a foot. He will see it every time he closes his eyes. He will never forget it till he is dead—and even then Doctor did you ever hear of the miserable gringos on Azuera, that cannot die.”
Source: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
“There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth”
“There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.”
“There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.”
“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.”
“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”
“There is something in every season, in every day, to celebrate with thanksgiving.”
“There is something in expressly touching in nature round Petersburg, when at the approach of spring she puts forth all her might, all the powers bestowed on her by Heaven, when she breaks into leaf, decks herself out and spangles herself with flowers.”
Source: White Nights
“There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them.”
Source: India, National Liberation and Class Struggles: A Collection of Classical Marxist Writings
“There is something in human pride that can stand big troubles, but we need the supernatural grace and power of God to stand by us in the little things. The tiniest detail in which we obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. When we do our duty, not for duty’s sake, but because we believe that God is engineering our circumstances in that way, then at the very point of our obedience the whole superb grace of God is ours.”
Source: Our Brilliant Heritage