T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.”
“There would be no 'quiet quitting' if people didn’t feel that they are being quietly marginalized and bullied in the first place.
[From “On the Great Resignation” published on CounterPunch on February 24, 2023]”
“There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.”
“There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything”
“There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry.”
“There would be no saving herself from the consequences of falling in love with Ice.”
Source: Vendetta Road
“There would be no sequel to the sadness”
“There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.”
“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”
“There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.”
“There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.”
“There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“There would be no survivors come morning. There never were. The Hunt left no hearts beating. There was no escaping the Sidhe. Not even the Fomorians, the powerful demons from below the sea, had outrun the pale ones and were driven back into the bellies of their waves and waters. But the Milesians were not demons like the Fomori. When they had come to Éire, they had a goddess blessed right to claim, and claim it they would. With spilled blood, unthinkable bargains and curses that would stain generations to come, the Milesians stood their ground.”
Source: The Cost of Curses: A Cursed Magic Novel
“There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.”
“There would be no wedding for me. No bridal hopes. Not with Seth, not with anyone. Those things were lost to me forever. There was only an eternity alone, no lifelong lovers, only those I shared a night with…. - Georgina”
“There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.”
Source: Faith of the Fallen
“There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.”
“There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.”
“There would be repercussions should I not return."
Montgomery's eyes widened, blue and guileless. "You see, this is the difference between you and me. When you make a statement like that, you think it will sway me. It doesn't. I. Don't. Care. I could kill you as easily as stepping on an ant and with far less remorse. Perhaps I'd face your repercussions on the morrow. Perhaps not. But that is for the sunrise. Tonight the shadows reign and the blood is singing in my veins. My very muscles tremble with the urge to carve the meat from your bones. Tell me"- he swept wide his arms- "who in this whole dissolute world is to dissuade me from my pleasures?"
Standing barefoot in his purple silk banyan, books scattered at his feet in the flickering light of a few candles, still holding that jeweled, curving dagger, he might've been some druidic priest, born before history was written.
Before men knew human sacrifice was forbidden.
Bridget found herself with her hand on his arm. How it had happened she could hardly think. Had it been daylight, had she been better rested, been better prepared, had at least one cup of tea inside her, she would've had better control over herself.
As it was, she was left with the act already done and the duke staring at her with his dangerous, mad eyes.
She swallowed, her lips trembling, and lifted her chin. "Don't. Please."
He cocked his head as though hearing a new song. Or a sound he'd never heard before at all. Something alien and strange.”
Source: Duke of Sin
“There would be some times where people wouldn't know how to act around me. Does he drink? Can I cuss? What can I do? And then there was other circumstances where it was, I just don't respect what you're trying to do.”
“There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of the alphabet. It would come out right with x+z^2+t/q=y+co, and the co would be clothes off!”
“There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing to themselves. Yes, they may at the moment have incredible power and are supported almost unconditionally by especially America, but most of the West as well. Yet what they are doing is contrary to the best teaching and highest teachings of their faith.”
“There would be time to tell Fell all of it. To say that there was so much to be afraid of—nuclear winter, ecological devastation, the death spasms of patriarchy. That the next fifty years would see unspeakable suffering. But we could survive it. Overcome it. Surmount the limits of our flesh and our mortality and our separateness. Combine into some new kind of thing, some wobbly magnificent machine who could crack the very fabric of time and space.”
Source: Let All the Children Boogie
“There would be times in the years to come when he ( Murphy ) would accompany me back and forth between the two worlds I'd come to know. Other times, Yipes would venture out over the water, and even Matilda came along once. There were loads of clothes and seeds and jars of honey and other such things cramping our space, and children of every age moving between the pillars and The Land of Elyon. And always, always, there was Marco at the pedals, helping guide the way across the Lonely Sea. I have yet to venture off the course that was set for me by Sir Alistair Wakefield, but I see certain things on the old maps that make me curious. Are there other places to explore, somewhere in the immeasurable reaches of the Lonely Sea? Maybe my own children or their children will find these strange spots on the map. My way is set an in stone, and I don't feel the need to veer off any longer. It has taken many days of searching and fighting, but in the end I have found what I was looking for. I have found my way home.”
Source: Stargazer
“There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.”
“There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.”
Source: Teach only love: the seven principles of attitudinal healing
“There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.”
“There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.”
“There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.”
Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west
“There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.”
“There would have been no war if mass ignorance and ego had not hit the immature individuals who became leaders of the unholy groups.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“There would have been time for such a word. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.”
“There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with strips of white fat like an evening sky with bands of clouds. There would be some tea ready to be drunk, yellowish golden tea in glasses with silver saucers, giving off a faint fragrance.”
“There would have to be fast work to ward off disaster. Far-sighted people, North and South, even foresaw the laboring people soon forsaking both of the old parties and going Socialist. Politicians and business men shuddered at the thought of such a tragedy and saw horrible visions of old-age pensions, eight-hour laws, unemployment insurance, workingmen's compensation, minimum-wage legislation, abolition of child labor, dissemination of birth-control information, monthly vacations for female workers, two-month vacations for prospective mothers, both with pay, and the probable killing of individual initiative and incentive by taking the ownership of national capital out of the hands of two million people and putting it into the hands of one hundred and twenty million.”
Source: Black No More
“There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.”
Source: The love of a good woman: stories
“There would never be anyone else. Not if he lived a thousand lifetimes.”
Source: Saved by Darkness
“There would never been an end to all the things I wished I'd asked my father. After so many years I thought less about his unwillingness to disclose and more about how stupid I'd been not to try harder.”
Source: The Dutch House
“There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence”
“There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.”
Source: Summa Contra Gentiles, 2: Book Two: Creation
“There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the successful entrepreneur. But the same people who scramble for these articles vilify the businessman and call his profit ill-got.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses
“There would not be enough stars in the sky to amount to the love I have for you. The world would dim and still, I would be angry I didn’t bring you enough light. I could steal the sun and it wouldn’t compare to your soul. Nothing, no one, equates to you, Mickey.”
Source: Snapdragons
“There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.”
“There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.”
Source: Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author
“There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.”
“There would not be worth for lightness without darkness.”
“There would remain no sign of you ever having played in this house. Your childhood is going to be swept under a camel-skin rug and elevators are going to be built over the lake we once swam in. This address, as we know it, would be lost forever and we’ll wake up in a box-sized room: cramped, trampled and sensationally unhappy.'
('Left from Dhakeshwari')”
“There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.”