T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.”
“They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really valuable people and will have lots of money from now on and really cool people like Ethan Hawke will be dropping by all the time. But it's a lie. Being a published writer will make them long to be ONLY as mentally ill as they are now. Their current level of obsession and doubt and self-loathing will look like the good old days. Honest.”
“They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say..."”
“They believe the less votes the better. Republicans like to suppress votes because they believe they do better in small turnouts. Characteristically, Democrats would rather lose an election with a huge turnout than win one with a small turnout because we think that the values of democracy have to be placed above the interests of the party. The reason that Republicans are such failures at governing is because they place the interests of their party ahead of the interests of the country.”
“They believe the only way to save this world is to remake it in their image.”
Source: Do Not Be Afraid: A Whimsical Urban Fantasy About a Stranded Angel, a Hellhound Puppy, and a Second Chance on Earth
“They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak.”
“They believe they know before the music does what their hands, their feet are to do, but that illusion is the music's secret drive: the control it tricks them into believing is theirs; the anticipation it anticipates.”
Source: Jazz
“They believed in angles and alchemy and the devil, and they believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical laws.”
Source: The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
“They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.”
“They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.”
Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
“They believed that the market was the ultimate judge of their work and their worth. The market created a true meritocracy: you either made money because you made good trading decisions or you lost money because you made bad ones. Enron traders didn't concern themselves with ethics or morality apart from the unyielding judgment of the markets. Maximizing profit was not inconsistent with doing good, they believed, but an inherent part of it, and the judge of good and bad was the immediate consequence of a split-second trade. The highest compliment a trader could pay a colleague was to call him intellectually pure. The worst insult was to accuse someone of making a deal that wasn't economic.”
Source: The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
“They believed that the very name Croat comes from the word mountain (gora)... They were competing in the reading of the Bible and the chapters in which their name was mentioned: Isa 10, 29; Isa 10, 31; Ezek 27, 9; Ps 83, 8.”
Source: AZ
“They believed that when a baby died at a very young age, the parents smacked its bottom to leave a bruise, so that if the child was reborn, it could be recognised by the markings on its body.”
Source: Second Chinese Daughter
“They believed those lies about me
and made themselves
a whole other boy
in their minds
and replaced me with him”
Source: Punching the Air
“They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.”
“They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.”
“They belonged to each other; and, no matter what life might hold for them, it could never alter that. Their happiness was in each other's keeping and both were unafraid.”
Source: Anne's House of Dreams
“They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.”
Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton
“They benefit from all these people, "I just don't like the fighting. Could you stop the shouting? All I want to do is just get along." They're easily able to bulldoze large groups of people into laying down and letting it happen in the hope that this will be peace, in the hope that there will be no confrontations, in the hope that the shouting will stop.”
“They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.”
Source: The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson
“They [best dressed women] don’t want to look like their daughters. They want their own individual brand of chic. […] The cut and fit must be exactly right, and they are willing to spend hours in the fitting room to make sure of it. They spend money, too. But if any one of them went broke tomorrow she’d rather choose one perfectly cut expensive dress and make it do for years than buy a dozen cheap ones.”
Source: My Way of Life
“They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.”
“They better not put me in the All -Star Game. I won't shoot, but I'll dominate that easy game. I'll be playing hard defense. I'll be foulin'. I'll be flagrant fouling. Everyone will be like, 'What are you doing?'”
“They bewailed innocence maltreated, goodness persecuted, love bleeding, meekness about to die; but my heart has a deeper and more bitter cause to mourn. My sins were the scourges which lacerated those blessed shoulders, and crowned with thorn those bleeding brows: my sins cried “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” and laid the cross upon His gracious shoulders. His being led forth to die is sorrow enough for one eternity: but my having been His murderer, is more, infinitely more, grief than one poor fountain of tears can express.”
“They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.”
Source: Maxwell 2-in-1 Becoming a Person of Influence & Talent Is Never Enough
“They bind me tae a woman I dinna want, tae a name I dinna ken. A stranger tae claim ma hearth an’ ma life like a thief in the night. ’Tis a curse, Fergus. An’ I hate it. I hate it wi’ every breath in me.”
“They bit you. You should've changed, too, you know." "Sometimes I wish I had," I told him. He closed his eyes, miles away on the other side of the bed. "Sometimes I do, too.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.”
“They blew out a breath and did the thing all heroes must do—they took that terrifying first step.”
Source: Midnight Marked
“They blinked in the dusk of the setting sun, a reminder that light was a recurring state.”
Source: Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.”
“They bombed my granny's chippie, left it completely flat. I'll have her for that”
“They [books] give you great strength. They teach you that there is hope to be found in all places. That you're never alone.”
Source: The Cat Who Saved the Library
“They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.”
“They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn’t sure which one of them was going to kill her first.”
“They both believed in her even when she didn’t believe in herself.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“They both closed their eyes and fell asleep in each other’s arms. For one night, it was as if their lives were normal and for a few hours they could forget about the rest of the world.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“They both cried on same bed, together, for different reasons.”
Source: Intrinsic Battles
“They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.”
“They both had enormous eyes, my father’s blue, my mother’s green, that expressed with great feeling what they frequently could not.”
Source: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
“They both knew the stakes were high and they were trapped in the inevitable, but there were far greater questions racing through their minds that night.”
Source: Protecting Miss Jenna
“They both laughed and drank to each other; they had never tasted sweeter liquor in all their lives. And in that moment they fell so deeply in love that their hearts would never be divided. So the destiny of Tristram and Isolde was ordained.”
“They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls.”
Source: Until August
“They both leaned in then, lips meeting in the middle. Their arms wrapped around each other’s bodies. But this time, the kiss was sweeter somehow. Less hungry. It was a kiss that felt like something shared between two people who had been together for years. Yet, those two people never tired of the feeling of a simple kiss.”
Source: Bringing Home The Cowboy
“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.”
Source: Tick Bite Fever
“They both looked into each other's eyes for one last time and turned their back on each other and started walking in different directions. Each step they took were heavy, their souls try to hold them back, screamed and turned around trying to get torn away from their bodies and reach out each other's hand, to hug each other and never let go but they couldn't. The distance between them was infinite now.”
“They both peered into the long, wooden box.
It was filled with ancient parchment scrolls, each tied with a ribbon. They exchanged a victorious look.
Rohan picked up the top scroll, but did not need to unfurl it to note the strange occult symbols, runes, and other Promethean markings. "This is it, all right."
"Unbelievable." Kate shook her head in amazed resentment that the Prometheans had had the audacity to put the dark, occult scribblings of a medieval sorcerer in this holy place.”
Source: My Dangerous Duke