T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich.”
“They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance.”
“They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.”
“They can call or e-mail, too, but I'd rather see the bug.”
“They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!”
“They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime”
“They can clutch with both hands at the myth of the great dark man. Their choice, unless they suffer from some subsidiary kink, is guided by the desire to bolster up, with a number of contrasts, that dream of themselves which it is their one increasing purpose to maintain.
To understand what kind of man they most admire it is only necessary to guess what they wish they themselves were—young, frail, beautiful and refined. Hence their predilection is for huge, violent, coarse brutes.”
Source: The Naked Civil Servant
“They can conquer who believe they can.”
“They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing?”
“They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat”
“They can defend themselves, and they can attack if they think we’re a threat, so I don’t advise throwing things at them.”
Source: The Never Tilting World
“They can die as soon as they want.”
“They can do all because they think they can.”
“They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.”
“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar”
Source: Walden and Civil Disobedience
“They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes”
Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
“They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“They can fly and they howl, they slaughter depression and headaches, they daydream like gangbanging daffodils, orchids and cherry blossoms grasping mauve toffee clouds, they breastfeed laughter.”
Source: Seraphic Addiction
“They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man.”
“They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man... there are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices. There's no special rights based upon what you do in your sex life. You're an American citizen first and foremost and that's it.”
“They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.”
“They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.”
“They can have their little ceremony. We know the truth.”
Source: Dragon's Gate
“They can have who I used to be, who I had been, anyway. They wanted the person that had cried for help all summer to wait for their forgiveness and to sit and think about what he had done wrong. I had done that, been through so much pain, and was so tired of all this. If it was him they wanted, then that’s how this would end.”
Source: Self-Preservation
“They can hurt you, but they can only break you if you let them.”
Source: The Unknown
“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.”
Source: Dreamsongs 2-Book Bundle: Dreamsongs Volumes I and II
“They can kill, harm, exile, imprison, destroy/ defame a person but not an idea. They can co-opt/ corrupt a person but not an idea. An idea that becomes a collective movement & ideology. A collective ideology cannot be killed, harmed, exiled, imprisoned, destroyed, defamed, co-opted or corrupted. This shall always prevail and stay as an ideology of the people collectively.”
Source: Karma Kurry for the Mind, Body, Heart & Soul
“They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?”
“They can kill you but they can never kill your words”
“They can lick you, darling. They can stroke you and suck you and pet you, but they can't have you. The only question now is how many times I'm gonna watch you come before I get my cock in you.”
Source: Beyond Control
“They can make all the plans they want but it doesn't mean I have to cooperate with them”
Source: Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
“They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.”
Source: The Federalist
“They can make the wild ideas we come up with a reality.”
“They can never undo it, never unwrite it, never unlive it, or relive it-- it's just stuck there like a vision of fireflies on a summer field toward evening that keeps saying, You could have had this instead.”
“They can only kill us once.”
“They can only set free men free...
And there is no need of that:
Free men set themselves free.”
Source: Songs for the New Age
“They can plot with shadows, but light laughs last — and the plan of truth always outshines the scheme of men.”
― Anis Labidi, They Plotted, Allah Planned: JAPAIGNANT”
“They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.”
Source: The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana
“They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“They can punish you without touching you. And they can make you call it safety.”
Source: The Day Satoshi Returned: A Novel
“They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.”
“They can rip you bring you down, down to their size, but they will never get to the heart you hold inside.”
“They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?”
Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms
“They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love...poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.”
“They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?”
Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
“They can say I have an opinion about something.”
“They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other nations because people look to our country as one nation as under God and whenever we legislate sin and we say abortion is permissible and we say gay unions are permissible, then average citizens who are not Christians, because they don't know better, we are leading them astray and it's wrong.”
“They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.”
“They can say whatever they want to say, but it is going to be hard, my friend, to duplicate me.”
“They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.”