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 silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.”
Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“There is something simmering inside of me. Something I've never dared to tap into, something I'm afraid to acknowledge. There is a part of me clawing to break free from the cage I've trapped it in, banging on the doors of my heart. Begging to be free. Begging to let go. Every day I feel like I'm reliving the same nightmare. I open my mouth to shout, to fight, to swing my fists but my vocal cords are cut, my arms are heavy and weighted down as if. trapped in wet cement and I'm screaming but no one can hear me, no one can reach me and I'm caught.
And it's killing me.
And I'm so tired I'm so tired I'm so tired I'm so tired and sometimes I get so angry.
I don't know what's happening to me.”
Source: Shatter Me
“There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.”
“There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.”
“There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“There is something so arbitrary about prizes.”
“There is something so attractive about a man who is able to laugh shamelessly.”
Source: Angel Eyes
“There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.”
“There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.”
“There is something so beautiful inside you that if you knew it, you would fall in love with it. It is irresistible. You can truly experience that.”
“There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.”
“There is something so captivating about her,
like a butterfly, she flutters
about from person to person,
— always leaving them to want more!”
Source: Of Love Lust & Lies: Anmol Kang
“There is something so comforting, so soothing about a mug of hot chocolate. No matter how old I am, I think chocolat chaud will always have the ability to take me back to special times, when all of the world's problems seemed to melt away by consuming one simple beverage.”
Source: My Secret Guide to Paris
“There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.”
“There is something so degrading - at least, one would think that there were something so degrading in the practice of writing as a trade - that anyone who has once earned a livelihood, or part of it, obviously and openly, by popular writing, can never be seriously regarded by any great number of people. And then, of course, "he does too much.”
Source: Selected Prose 1909–1965
“There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.”
“There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious.”
Source: The federalist papers
“There is something so great about film and television where you can convey an emotion in
the blink of an eye which you would perhaps not be able to do to the back row of a theatre, like
over 1000 seats, and there is something so subtle and beautiful about that too.”
“There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.”
“There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.”
“There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.”
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
“There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.”
Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
“There is something so mysterious that it is almost like God. God is in the equations. God is in the fundamental constants. And that's fine. I mean, that's just redefinition of that which we find mysterious at the basis of the universe.”
“There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
“There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.”
Source: The Character of Jesus
“There is something so rewarding about dancing. It's almost spiritual - you let loose, you feel free, you get endorphins from the exercise.”
“There is something so sad about going online and seeing almost everyone shouting ‘Notice me, notice me!’ Which is such a human desire—to be acknowledged. But me responding to that with some sort of ‘You’re noticed, you’re seen’ only perpetuates the loneliness. Because I’m not seeing you; I’m not noticing you. And whoever you are, you so deserve to be noticed and valued. I feel lucky to have not grown up with the Internet because it forced me to get out, struggle and be so messy.”
“There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.”
Source: Living Out Loud
“There is something so sexy about a man so in control of himself and everything around him that it makes you just want to do things to him then watch as he loses control over you”
Source: Stoned
“There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start to run. Its tender partly because it harkens back to infancy, to your mother washing your face with love and lots or water, tending to you, making you clean all over again.”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“There is something softer than the water: The touch of the love!”
“There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far.”
Source: Crazy Ladies
“There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to achieve. Isn't that what we're all searching for in life? To just be happy and content in the moment, to just be there in the "now"?”
“There is something special about this precious man. He carries so much worth. His worth surpasses indices in stock markets—a man of sheer grace and diligence.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers.”
Source: Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks
“There is something special about you. You've got the it factor; a talent or skill that is unique to you, and you have a responsibility to your life to bring it out.”
“There is something special missing in this world. That something special is in you. Do your own thing. Master it & perfect it. Don’t throw away something you have for something other people have. You might be throwing away something bigger than what they have.”
“There is something spiteful and yet open-hearted about you”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.”
Source: Practical Philosophy
“There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.”
Source: For Keeps
“There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess.”
Source: The Wandering Jew
“There is something strange at work in this land. I distrust the silence. I distrust even the pale Moon. The stars are faint; and I am weary as I have seldom been before, weary as no Ranger should be with at clear trail to follow. There is some will that lends speed to our foes and sets an unseen barrier before us: a weariness that is in the heart more than in the limb.”
“There is something strange in the silence of a winter view: Something seems to happen, but nothing happens, as if all reality is frozen!”
“There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.”
Source: Out of Africa
“There is something strangely ecstatic, oddly fascinating and infinitely magnetic about unrequited love.”
“There is something stupid about raw events of which Destiny, if it exists, cannot be insensible. There is something stupid about self-evidence and truth from which a superior irony cannot but spare us. Thus everything is expiated one way or another. Forgetting or mourning are no more then the period of time required by reversibility.”
Source: Cool memories
“There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.”
Source: The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom
“There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale