T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There was no such thing as Kazakhstan. It was just a chunk of Soviet Union.
I had to build a country, to establish an army, our own police, our internal life, everything from roads to the constitution. I had to change the minds of the people 180 degrees, from totalitarian regime to freedom, from state property to private property.
Nobody wanted to understand that. My comrades from the communist party were against me. I had to train myself too...
I wasn't raised with democracy and freedom of speech.”
“There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.”
Source: Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two
“There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.”
“There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.”
Source: A Fine Balance
“There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.”
Source: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“There was no such thing, in a good world, as too many libraries.”
Source: The Collector of Burned Books
“There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight. When you first notice them they have already been going on for some time.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“There was no sugar! That was better for our health; no need to taste such a boring thing. Sugar is one of these decorative ingredients; those ingredients that deceive you by changing the bitterness of reality into some dazzling bites of sweetness.”
Source: It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase
“There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn't remember what the sky looked like. But I didn't die. I was lost to a sea of cold, and then I was reborn into a world of warmth.”
Source: Shiver
“There was no surprise they would feel leery about being injected by anything else he had to offer, considering what they were currently experiencing.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.”
“There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.”
Source: Catch-22: A Novel
“There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.”
“There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.”
“There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.”
Source: A Door Into Ocean
“There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.”
“There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.”
“There was no time for self-reflection in the ER, or on any COVID unit. It was like telling a soldier to take a break and think it through before he shot back.”
Source: When We Lost Touch
“There was no time to look back. Only to move forward, toward the dots on the horizon, and steer for them.”
Source: Island of Fire
“There was no time to think. No time to decide. My instincts were all I had left.”
Source: Shielded
“There was no time to think, I just hit it”
“There was no time to worry about using the same syringe on all ten men. He figured guys like them were used to sharing needles anyway, so what did it matter?”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“There was no true consent when things were so unequal.”
Source: Molly House
“There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“There was no Twitter when I was in high school, so I can't even imagine the pressures or the expectations of pursuing likes or living life in that kind of mentality.”
“There was no unknown. He loved me and I loved him. There was no question, no doubt, no uncertainty, which perhaps caused us to lose ourselves indefinitely and enter a void so permanent. One where we stood with such confidence, which sounds lovely; but when you believe you have everything, you simply lose everything.”
“There was no up, there was no down. There was a steady, nauseated life five minutes ago, but nothing five minutes from now. And then, very suddenly, there was no 'now.”
Source: New Girl
“There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.”
“There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.”
Source: Black Unicorn
“There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, that it was all in his imagination; the last and greatest of his protectors had died, and he was more alone than he had ever been.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.”
Source: Countdown: A Newsflesh Novella
“There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.”
“There was no water at my grandfather’s
when I was a kid and would go for it
with two zinc buckets. Down the path,
past the cow by the foundation where
the fine people’s house was before
they arranged to have it burned down.
To the neighbor’s cool well. Would
come back with pails too heavy,
so my mouth pulled out of shape.
I see myself, but from the outside.
I keep trying to feel who I was,
and cannot. Hear clearly the sound
the bucket made hitting the sides
of the stone well going down,
but never the sound of me.”
“There was no water for miles on end here, not even a small lake, and he was starting to feel like a man trapped in a prison.”
Source: Wandering Storm
“There was no way a world as corrupted as this could be saved or all of the wrongdoers punished.”
Source: Tap, Tap, Tap 'Til Halloween Comes
“There was no way he could fight his way out, not this time.”
Source: Shattered Reflection
“There was no way I could be confident! But it was obvious that the patient will die if I don't do something!"
-Dr. Honma”
“There was no way I could live another moment without Aza Ray knowing my name." - Jason Kerwin”
Source: Magonia
“There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.”
“There was no way I could write a paper knowing that Andy Warhol and Boy George were partying at Danceteria.”
“There was no way I was ever going to get a fair shake. How good could I be? I was Canadian. I wasn't from New York. I wasn't from Vegas. I was born in 1975, not 1917. My last name wasn't Sinatra or Darin or Martin. Early on and often, there was always the comparison. "He's good, but he's no '[fill in the] blank.'”
“There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done with that. So I tried working on other people's projects, but didn't find any where I felt I could learn what I needed to learn.”
“There was no way I was going to let him die. He was my other half; without him, I felt incomplete. I wasn't sure if this was my dragon talking or me,but I couldn't imagine a world without Riley.”
Source: Rogue
“There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.”
“There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. -Bella Cullen”
“There was no way out. I was on my way to hell with no hope of escape. Until I cried upon that precious, holy, saving name of Jesus—with all my might, I cried out to God. I prayed, asking if He would give me a second chance.”
Source: Upon Them All: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Purpose: True Stories to Ignite Your Faith.
“There was no way Penny would go to House and let Sam see her. That would ruin everything. Sam would take one look at her and be like, "Yikes, never mind.”
Source: Emergency Contact
“There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and far too physically challenging. Magnus himself had never attempted half of them.”
Source: The Runaway Queen