T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There was nothing between the ranch and the nearest town except a windy, two-lane mountain road edged with pine trees, meadows, cliffs and boulders. No Dairy Queen, no Circle K, nothing.”
Source: Colorado Takedown
“There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.”
Source: My Ántonia
“There was nothing but myself.
I hung in a timeless, spaceless, forceless void that was neither light, nor dark. I had entity, but no form; awareness, but no senses; mind, but no memory. I wondered, is this – this nothingness – my soul? And it seemed that I had wondered that always, and should go on wondering it for ever…”
Source: Consider Her Ways and Others
“There was nothing but truth between us now”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“There was nothing dark and hidden about Jesus. He was and is the Light of the world, and He welcomed the light.”
Source: Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God
“There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.”
Source: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“There was nothing else in the entire universe, nothing but the two of them together. Her curves, his angles. Her light, his darkness. Her softness, his exquisitely aching hardness.
Male. Female.”
Source: Moonshadow
“There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t have him ripped away from me like that. I could survive emotional turmoil; I could survive the most intense physical torture. I could survive Armageddon and holy fire raining down upon the earth, but I could not survive without him.”
Source: Hades
“There was nothing else to do but keep moving forward. You chose your path. You walked it. You hoped to find a way home again.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.”
Source: The Coroner's Lunch
“There was nothing fake or added or subtracted about him. He was all himself.”
Source: The Coroner's Lunch
“There was nothing for him, and in the end, he had to acknowledge that he was too dangerous to just keep around like some loose cannon”
Source: Vendetta Road
“There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.”
“There was nothing for it now but to throw himself on Campos's mercy, and it had been Mr. Rebeck's experience of mercy that it had a tendency to buckle under the weight of a human soul.”
Source: A Fine and Private Place
“There was nothing funny about the situation, but I laughed anyway. I'd done the same thing during Grandpa Andy's funeral. Busted out laughing right during Father Diaz's opening prayer. I apologized to Gamma Evelyn afterward, and she told me it was okay. That life was ridiculous and absurd, and sometimes the only way to keep it from overwhelming us was to laugh right in its face.”
Source: A Complicated Love Story Set in Space
“There was nothing glamorous about the kiss. It was breathy and sloppy and noisy, more passion than finesse, but it was like a hit of speed tripping
through his blood, rippling pleasure through his thighs and buttocks and belly, their heads twisting greedily in time to the wild buck of his hips.”
Source: Playing It Cool
“There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.”
“There was nothing green left; artillery had denuded and scarred every inch of ground. Tiny flares glowed and disappeared. Shrapnel burst with bluish white puffs. Jets of flamethrowers flickered and here and there new explosions stirred up the rubble.
While I watched, an American observation plane droned over the Japanese lines, spotting targets for the U.S. warships lying offshore. Suddenly the little plane was hit by flak and disintegrated. The carnage below continued without pause.
Here I was safe, but tomorrow I would be there. In that instant I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.”
“There was nothing he needed or wished to buy; but he liked to see the display of goods, any goods, objects made by men, to be used by men. He enjoyed the sight of a prosperous street;”
“There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.”
Source: Night Play
“There was nothing I could do but stare and stare at the whelks.
Whelks are strange and comforting.
They have no notion of community life and they breed very quietly.
But they have a strong sense of personal dignity.
Even lying face down in a tray of vinegar, there is something noble about a whelk.
Which cannot be said for everybody.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.”
Source: Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys
“There was nothing I craved and despised as much as being worshipped.”
Source: Screaming into Pillows
“There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn't have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails until I was a bleeding wreck. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being me.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“There was nothing I loved more than teasing Dimitri. Well, aside from maybe kissing him.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“There was nothing I wished to do which I could just as well not do.”
Source: Tropic of Capricorn
“There was nothing in her imagination to replace the formless, unchanging days of starvation. She clung to life because it seemed to have value, even if only to her.”
Source: She Who Became the Sun
“There was nothing in the deal with Justice that would change Microsoft's business practices in any way.”
“there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.”
Source: The White Flag
“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“There was nothing inherently special about it, but that's what made the whole thing so memorable.”
Source: Escape
“There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.”
“There was nothing left of my feelings for those I had just spent several hours with. The whole crowd of them could have burned in hell for all I cared.”
Source: Min kamp 2
“There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.”
Source: Rising Tides
“There was nothing like a shooting war to get men to face reality, though many still found facts unpalatable.”
“There was nothing like a trip to the gynecologist to make one feel just a little violated. Charley”
“There was nothing like stepping into a fabulous pair of heels for the first time.”
Source: Stilettos For Me, Please!
“There was nothing like the cold, heavy steel of a gun, the soft moan of an appreciative woman or the sharp burn of a good single malt to make a man grateful to be alive. Tonight, with his gun gone and his sex life a wasteland, Dash had to settle for whiskey.”
Source: Limbo
“There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.”
Source: The Ashes of Eden
“There was nothing, Lyndon Johnson remarked, that “makes a man come to grips more directly with his conscience than the Presidency. Sitting in that chair involves making decisions that draw out a man’s fundamental commitments. The burden of his responsibility literally opens up his soul. No longer can he accept matters as given; no longer can he write off hopes and needs as impossible.” The office was a crucible of character.”
Source: The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
“There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players.”
“There was nothing mean about his voice. In fact it was almost too nice. Like she was too dim to grasp whatever was so obvious to him. Which made her absolutely furious.”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.”
Source: The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
“There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand.”
Source: The Familiar
“There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.”
Source: The Last Place
“There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.”
“There was nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved.”
“There was nothing more to leave behind. In a way, I had walked the roji, the Zen term for "dewy path," which represents the transition from the outside burning world of dust and passions to the contemplative spiritual world of a Japanese teahouse.”
Source: Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
“There was nothing more unfair in the world than when something, be it tree or man, lived on to uselessness, to the point when it became a burden; that of the multitude of sins let loose upon the world to be prayed away and redeemed, this was the only one that was unbearable. The tree at least would fall, rot, and fertilize the earth. But man? Is he at least good for that? Then why bear old age if it brings nothing but discomfort and suffering?”
Source: Farewell to Matyora
“There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state.”
Source: The Great Transformation