T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They’d insert a probe into the patient’s head to press the nodule and the patient’s immediate response would be to shout out, “FUCK IT! WHY NOT?”
Source: Skullcrack City
“They'd lay there and watch the magical show in the sky as it transformed from one colour to the next, before fading into darkness in a matter of moments. The sun had a split personality of its own.”
Source: The Colours of Denial
“They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put himself outside and outside they'd make him stay. Neither brutality nor complaining could force a way in.”
Source: The Dark
“They’d made a fool of her. She should have been humiliated. Instead, she felt alive. This was her game, and if she was behind at halftime, it only meant they expected her to lose. There was nothing better than being underestimated.”
Source: Caliban’s War
“They’d never get here in time. It’s easy. A lobotomized monkey could do it.” “And where are we going to find a lobotomized monkey at this time of night?”
Source: The Eyre Affair
“They’d never really been my friends; I didn’t cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband.”
Source: Annihilation
“They'd read all the fairy tales about old ladies who poisoned apples and gnawed on little-kid bones. Wilma Jean wondered if the tales had been invented by old ladies who'd already raised their own damn children and just wanted to live the rest of their lives in peace.”
Source: Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
“They'd retreated to the country with two passports only. From the outside it looked like death. People could pound the walls all they wanted, but they'd never find the door. Nobody could guess at the gardens inside.”
Source: Paint It Black
“They’d sat under the starlight and shared quiet conversation and had both read together during the day, happy amidst all of nature’s splendor. On the days the urge to run away grew too strong to bear, she remembered for dear life.”
Source: A Reflection of Ice
“They'd seen her laugh before he did, had seen her live before he had. The thought of it provoked envy inside of Wharick, and that emotion at times, could be just as powerful as jealousy."
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance”
Source: Sustenance
“They’d seen his deepest secrets. They knew who he was, what he was. But they didn’t seem to care. No … they cared more. They weren’t judging him. They were concerned.”
“They'd smother what was left of her pride in well-meaning sympathy.”
Source: Beyond Pain
“They’d stolen his life.
And rebirthed him as a monster.”
Source: Darkness Rising
“They’d used sex instead of communication in the past, and it had turned out disastrously.”
Source: Heart and Sole
“They’d welcomed him aboard their ship. Nico had never allowed himself the luxury of friends, but the crew of the Argo II was as close as he’d ever come. The idea of any of them dying made him feel empty – like he was back in the giants’ bronze jar, alone in the dark, subsisting only on sour pomegranate seeds.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“They dabbled in dark magic like finger painters in first grade art class, and then most of them were either killed by their creations or ran the other way from the nightmares they unleashed.”
Source: Hunting for Spring
“They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned things by calling them ‘clever.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“They dance the Hoochie Coochie when work is done. They dance by the light of the Moon. Buffalo Girls are plenty smart.”
“They danced
and yet they died;”
“they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.”
Source: Rowing to Eden: Collected Stories
“They danced by the light of the moon.”
“They danced, in a way—without ever touching. A cautious orbit, each too shy to speak, too uncertain to step away.”
Source: The Weight Of Ash And Gold
“They danced wildly in the forest, swaying with the tall trees and the howling wind.”
Source: le cercle des poetes disparus""
“They dare to threaten you? Then they threaten all of us.”
Source: Delphine and the Silver Needle
“They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.”
“They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.”
“They dated," Frank says, with just a little too much relish. "For two years. They were the shiniest golden couple of our class. What a match, you know? Both gorgeous. She's super smart--does student government, debate, choir, all that business. He does the sports and volunteers with his dad's church, has those puppy eyes that make you want to buy him a boat--"
"Do they?"
"Yes, gaze deeply into his eyes next time--you'll feel it." He takes a long draw from his drink and then continues. "Anyway, they were the kind of couple where it's like, separate--they're great. But together, it's . . . star magic."
"Star magic?"
"From the universe. Celestial bodies aligning and shit. That kind of magic.”
Source: This Adventure Ends
“They de-hatted, but with reluctance.”
Source: Moving Pictures
“They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.”
“They decide to show it is good
It is a show
They shout it is good
It is a show
They won’t let anything good to show up
It is a show
What do people believe?
Is it a show?”
“They decided that all liars should be whipped.
And a man came along and told them the truth.
And they hanged him.”
Source: Little stings
“They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner.”
“They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.”
“They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.”
“They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.”
“They declared war on us some 100,000 years ago. We are about to announce that we've finally noticed.”
Source: Resident Mad Scientist
“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)”
“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.”
Source: The Portable Plato
“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”
Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke
“They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.”
“They defy gravity, as good books should.”
Source: Boy Meets Boy
“They denied the paradox by swallowing it whole.”
Source: House of Leaves
“They desecrate Riora’s sacred temple! She will be enraged.”
“Oh, gods, look at the marble. We are all beyond doomed.”
“Somebody put a plant in front of it!”
Source: No Rest for the Wicked
“They destroy lives with work. What for? They rob men of their lives. What for, I ask? My master—I lost my life in the textile mill of Nefidov—my master presented one prima donna with a golden wash basin. Every one of her toilet articles was gold. That basin holds my life-blood, my very life. That's for what my life went! A man killed me with work in order to comfort his mistress with my blood. He bought her a gold wash basin with my blood.”
Source: Mother
“They destroyed wolves for a host of pragmatic reasons: to safeguard livestock, to knit local ecosystems into global capitalist markets, to collect state-sponsored bounties, and to rid the world of beasts they considered evil, wild, corrupt, and duplicitous.”
Source: Vicious: Wolves and Men in America
“They determined who got the first question by a coin toss, to which Sarah Palin said, 'Oh, what a coincidence, that's how I got picked.'”
“They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.”
“They developed the confidence to bounce back from adversity and tap into a source of inner strength many of them had never experienced before. They faced their demons head-on and didn’t blink.”
Source: Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
“They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody