T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They called it that, I mean 'democracy'.”
“They called it the city of tomorrow. In most cities around the world, the only people who ever look up are the tourists. In Metropolis, everyone looked up.”
Source: Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1
“They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.”
“They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.”
“They called me a war hero, but know that we've lost I'm suddenly a criminal.”
Source: Showa 1944-1953: A History of Japan
“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.”
“They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.”
“They called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget.”
“They called themselves hunters because hunting was their job.”
Source: Pulling Teeth and Other Stories: A Grimdark Paranormal Fantasy
“They called themselves the Meme Squad, which was so cringeworthy that I wished I hadn’t heard it; their motto was ‘ignorance is strength’.”
Source: Worth the Candle
“They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on”
Source: The Carpet People
“They called themselves The Souls. They told Ms. Olinski that they were The Souls before they were a team, but she told them that they were a team as soon as they became The Souls. Then after a while, teacher and team agreed that they were arguing chicken-or-egg. Whichever way it began--chicken-or-egg, team-or-The Souls--it definitely ended with an egg. Definitely, an egg.”
“They called us ghosts. Numbers. Protocols. But we were never what they made us.”
“They called you the Glue"
"The Glue?"
"Yeah. Probably because you're kind of the glue that holds us all together”
Source: The Scorch Trials
“They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, and so capriciously favored by the sinister flying squads of the NKVD.
Ironically, the arrest when it came did not shock Batya. He had prepared for it.”
Source: Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
“They came for me the next morning.”
Source: Child of Another Kind
“They came for my neighbour and I stayed silent because it wasn't me they looked for. Then they came for me and all I heard was silence...”
“They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.”
“They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.”
“They came here on Sunday, 30th June, 1940, after bombing us two days before. They said they hadn't meant to bomb us; they mistook our tomato lorries on the pier for army trucks. How they came to think that strains the mind. They bombed us, killing some thirty men, women, and children - one among them was my cousin's boy. He had sheltered underneath his lorry when he first saw the planes dropping bombs, and it exploded and caught fire. They killed men in their lifeboats at sea. They strafed the Red Cross ambulances carrying our wounded. When no one shot back at them, they saw the British had left us undefended. They just flew in peaceably two days later and occupied us for five years.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“They came in Shoals from all Corners of the Kingdom to Edinburgh, Rich, Poor, Blind, and Lame, to lodge their subscriptions in the Company's House, and to have a Glimpse of the Man Paterson.”
“They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.”
“They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.”
Source: John Dies at the End
“They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.”
Source: Carpe Corpus
“They came to a living prairie that was a marvelous and alien place, disorienting to newcomers in its vastness.”
Source: Great Plains Homesteaders
“They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.”
Source: The plague: translated from the French
“They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife”
“They came to see Glinda the Good Witch, but after midnight, they found the Wicked Witch of the West and left quaking in fear of flying monkeys.”
Source: Shifting Shadows
“they came to these islands and low hills
which lift up from a land where we have
set a lamp with a golden torch
on top, to remind us, here at the door:
entering through it was a promise to leave it
open behind us.”
“They came to this country they, they were Hungarians, they were Communists from a Communist country. And right now those Hungarian freedom fighters can get jobs that student sit-ins can't get. They can go and sleep and live in hotels that Martin Luther King himself can't live in.They are recognized and respected because they are fighters, not because they are sit-iners or freedom.”
“They came together in a tangle of limbs as they touched each other, the kiss wild and feverish. A groan tore from him as her hands roved over his shoulders and down his back. Her caress was light and sensual, as if her desire seeped like magic from her fingertips into his skin everywhere she touched.”
Source: Torched
“They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.”
“They came up with a table of pictures of all the shapes of UFOs that have ever been recorded -about fifty ...The study of UFOs may reveal some new forms of energy to us,or at least bring us closer to a solution.”
“They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.”
Source: The Road
“They came with a massive force of numbers: to rip apart the veil of existence that few knew even existed. They tore their way into our world relentlessly, and once they breathed our air and stood on the soil of our homelands, they killed and maimed, surging from their rifts in numbers incalculable. Their troops on the ground were supported by winged creatures never intended for our world. The monsters swooped from the darkness beyond, filling the sky with dark silhouettes like bats, only much more dangerous. Never before had humanity faced such a force of evil and no one was immune to their violence.”
Source: Sensuality in the Darkest of Times: A Short Story
“They came with stately airs, family by family, pomposity rolling off them”
Source: The Legendary Inge
“They campaigned on contempt for the body they sought to join.”
Source: The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
“They camped at night among evergreens, and George showed her how to make use of her herbs for a lentil stew for breakfast. She already was thinking longingly of the food back in the Palace- though, she was ravenous enough to have eaten almost anything. But their fare was plain in the extreme and even though there was quite enough to keep her from feeling hungry, still, images of roast fowl, lamb, bowls of ripe fruit and yogurt, fresh bread and honeycomb, and sweet wine kept intruding between her and her plain flatbread and crumbled goat cheese and olives.”
Source: One Good Knight
“They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.”
Source: Tis: A Memoir
“They can all get some. Remember this! I will do this to all y'all down here. Look at his face. I don't care if you're a flyweight, or your mamma weight! I will kick your ass!”
“They can award me with the greatest accolades
and reward me with the finest diamonds.
They can name days and streets after me,
canonise and celebrate me.
They can make me the queen of their kingdom,
the president of their nation.
They can carry my picture in their wallets
and whisper my name in their prayers
but, tell me, what is all this worth
if your voice isn’t the one calling me home?”
“They can be like the sun, words.
They can do for the heart what light can for a field.”
Source: The Poems of St. John of the Cross
“They can be meek that have no other cause.
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burden’d with like weight of pain,
As much, or more, we should ourselves complain:
So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,
With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me;
But, if thou live to see like right bereft,
This fool-begg’d patience in thee will be left.”
Source: The Comedy of Errors
“They can be seen as givers in their inability to confront situations. This can have a benefit of appearing to be trying in a relationship, yet distancing themselves. This ultimately exhausts them and overwhelms them to the point of poor me.”
Source: Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder
“They can be totally insane, but fans are our lifeblood.”
“They can bite, but cannot be us,
They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us,
You ought to be ashamed trying to fit in my adidas,
So Run like DMC like you don't know you got no heater”
“They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.”
“They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.”
“They Can Bury Us Deep, But We Always Grow Back." — Poison Ivy”