T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently”
“There was, nevertheless, a chip of granite at the heart of the Boy. Something obdurate. There was also something in his head. It was a brain.”
Source: Boy in Darkness
“There was night, and there was the darkness of extinguishing a candle, and then there was this. Not only the true absence of light but . . . a womb. The womb from which all life had come and would return, neither good nor evil, only dark, dark, dark.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.”
Source: The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series
“There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.”
“There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.”
“There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.”
“There was no anonymity in Manila. It was a big city, but it was a small city in many ways, too small for me back in the day. If I were in Manila, I wouldn’t be caught dead in the company of a beer-drinking stranger like you, especially like you in your bad boy jacket and your bad word shirt and your scruffy beard on a Saturday afternoon.”
“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.”
“There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.”
Source: A Married Woman
“There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that -- using logic as a weapon.”
Source: Marriage by Arrangement
“There was no arguing with blood.”
Source: Purity
“There was no assassin. It was a romantic misunderstanding.'
Her eyebrows go up.
'The High King is very bad at romance,' I say.”
Source: The Wicked King
“There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.”
“There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
“There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,”
Source: You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
“There was no better way to sell a lie, she knew, than to sprinkle it with truth.”
“There was no big book of the nineties.”
Source: In Limbo
“There was no ‘big talk.’ We exchanged a few awkward sentences, then he walked away, and I spent the rest of the night pretending everything was fine.”
Source: Coming Back to You
“There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.”
“There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.”
“There was no burger so soggy that he would not eat it. No tequila so mean that he would not drink it. No car so covered with birdshit and rust that he would not drive it around town (and if it were a convertible, he'd have the top down, even in rain, even in snow). There was no flag he would not desecrate, no true believer he would not mock, no song he wouldn't sign off-key, no dental appointment he wouldn't break, no child he wouldn't do tricks for, no old person he wouldn't help in from the cold, no moon he wouldn't lie under...”
“There was no burns unit at the Maui hospital during the August 2023 Maui wildfires, burn victims had to be transported to Oahu for treatment.”
“There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.”
“There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.”
“There was no certainty, no secure path, no absolutely moral one. You did the best you could for yourself and those you cared about, and hoped that this would be a sufficiently broad spectrum of concern to keep your soul in healthy condition.”
Source: The Dragon Griaule
“There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.”
“There was no church, no philosophy, no school of thought, no nothing that could be trusted in full. To believe too much in anything was to sacrifice your faculties. The only way forward was to embrace the tussle of it all.
Born with a seething righteousness, Vern looked down on anyone les willing or able to put up a fight than she was.”
Source: Sorrowland
“There was no circumcision. Lee said circumcision was dreamed up by moralists and lotion salesmen to make hand jobs chafe, and Peggy deferred to his better judgement.”
Source: Mislaid
“There was no city, no London, just beacon fires on all three sacred mounds.”
Source: The Sacred Well Murders
“There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary [Clinton] campaign staff.”
“There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.”
Source: The Awakening: Number 2 in series
“There was no club but the Hells Angels as far as I was concerned.”
“There was no conflict between science and religion ever. The conflicts were actually between two different systems of human understanding – one was science, which was based on rigorous observations and examinations, and the other was fundamentalism, that’s based on undisputed belief on the scriptures.”
Source: Biopsy of Religions: Neuroanalysis Towards Universal Tolerance
“There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed.”
“There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient.”
Source: The Well of Ascension
“there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations”
“there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.”
“There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.”
“There was no denying it. Boys grabbed him. Their loveliness tore him apart. The world was a wonder after all.”
Source: The Coming Storm
“There was no denying it; his wicked words thrilled her. Like a feather slowly brushing over her bare skin, they teased and tantalized, awakening every inch of her body.”
Source: My Brown-Eyed Earl
“There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?”
Source: Crossing the Mangrove
“There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.”
Source: The Awakening and Other Writings
“There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.”
“There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.”
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not inciting them. That's also true of another case of a suspect murdered, his body disposed of without autopsy, when he could easily have been apprehended and brought to trial: Osama bin Laden.”
Source: Because We Say So
“There was no discussion between them; it was as if the bugs had worked out this whole scenario long ago. Temp put on a burst of speed for the end of the bridge, and Tick turned to face down the army of rats alone.”
Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:
“There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange trees. Every month an eighty-year-old couple became lost in the groves, driving up and down identical rows for days until they were spotted by helicopter or another tourist on top of the Citrus Tower. They had lived on nothing but oranges and come out of the trees drilled on vitamin C and checked into the honeymoon suite at the nearest bed-and-breakfast.
"The Miami Seaquarium put in a monorail and rockets started going off at Cape Canaveral, making us feel like we were on the frontier of the future. Disney bought up everything north of Lake Okeechobee, preparing to shove the future down our throats sideways.
"Things evolved rapidly! Missile silos in Cuba. Bales on the beach. Alligators are almost extinct and then they aren't. Juntas hanging shingles in Boca Raton. Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo skinny-dipping off Key Biscayne. We atone for atrocities against the INdians by playing Bingo. Shark fetuses in formaldehyde jars, roadside gecko farms, tourists waddling around waffle houses like flocks of flightless birds. And before we know it, we have The New Florida, underplanned, overbuilt and ripe for a killer hurricane that'll knock that giant geodesic dome at Epcot down the trunpike like a golf ball, a solid one-wood by Buckminster Fuller.
"I am the native and this is my home. Faded pastels, and Spanish tiles constantly slipping off roofs, shattering on the sidewalk. Dogs with mange and skateboard punks with mange roaming through yards, knocking over garbage cans. Lunatics wandering the streets at night, talking about spaceships. Bail bondsmen wake me up at three A.M. looking for the last tenant. Next door, a mail-order bride is clubbed by a smelly ma in a mechanic's shirt. Cats violently mate under my windows and rats break-dance in the drop ceiling. And I'm lying in bed with a broken air conditioner, sweating and sipping lemonade through a straw. And I'm thinking, geez, this used to be a great state.
"You wanna come to Florida? You get a discount on theme-park tickets and find out you just bough a time share. Or maybe you end up at Cape Canaveral, sitting in a field for a week as a space shuttle launch is canceled six times. And suddenly vacation is over, you have to catch a plane, and you see the shuttle take off on TV at the airport. But you keep coming back, year after year, and one day you find you're eighty years old driving through an orange grove.”
Source: Florida Roadkill