T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.”
Source: Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds
“They disregarded the Torah — either willfully, or because the knowledge of the laws regarding handling of the Ark was not properly taught generations to generation. They suffered the consequences for such disobedience. The Philistines are not beholden to our laws. They have no such sacred responsibility. However, they still were cursed because of their foolish boast that they’d been victorious over Yahweh — a notion that the pharaoh in Mosheh’s day learned by suffering his own plagues.”
Source: To Dwell Among Cedars
“They dived into the ocean of shadow and smog, adding to it with the fumes of their own aircraft. The goggles were useless now, but Jacob kept them on, in case there might be some break in the murky pool. It was fitting that the Worldwaker had passed through there, with the shark emblem painted on brightly. In those deep waters it could not be seen. It almost felt like it had lured them in. The dolphins do not hunt the sharks.”
Source: Worldwaker
“They do a heck of a job with the PGA professionals around the country and taking care of the clubs and country clubs and everything else, but when it comes to understanding the guys out here on Tour and everything else, I don't think they get it because they're not out here on a regular basis.”
“They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.”
“They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.”
“They do everything to make you fail; but when you win they all start kissing your shoes to be part of the game.”
“They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.”
“They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo.”
Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
“They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.”
Source: Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals
“They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.”
Source: Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Sparklesoup Classics)
“They do not air 'GH' in Holland, so I don't get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn't affect things much. It's a wonderful life and I am so blessed.”
“They do not boast about themselves and their possessions. They are kind and serene, and no matter what, they always convey sunshine through their smiles.”
“They do not care about truth. They care to create impressions against someone because impressions stay. But in order to weaken such evil practice we must be aware of it. We should not become prey of interests because unknowingly we may have conflict of interest.”
Source: You Are Always Innocent
“They do not care if you are good. They barely care if you are wicked. The only thing that makes them listen is power.”
Source: Circe
“They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.”
“They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better the secret entrusted to them at the outset; their creative effort goes into an unending exegesis, a commentary on that one couplet of poetry assigned to them.”
“They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
[Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.]”
“They do not have to enjoy each other’s society; they must simply take their togetherness as assumed. The cavalier who will not sleep in the same room as their necromancer must question themselves as to why. Their love is the love that fears only for the other: the love of service on both sides.”
Source: Gideon the Ninth
“they do not kiss
but they both want to
instead their feet touch and so do their arms
it is electric magic
their tiny arm hairs tingling
happily lying together
the sun warming them
watching sky through green-leafed gum branch
close enough to hear each other breathe
sweet togetherness
this lazy lying down dance of love”
Source: Guitar Highway Rose
“They do not know how you would wake up
in the middle of the night searching for home. And now your heart has made you feel that this new land us your home too.”
“they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.”
“They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians will not appreciate the determination and pluck of the South, and Southern politicians do not appreciate the numbers, resources, and patient perseverance of the North. Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I foresee that our country will pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins.”
“They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve to
think otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for which there is but one cure.’
‘You’re wrong. And that’s why you must be put to rest.’
‘Am I not unlike those precious books you seek to save? A source of knowledge
with which you disagree? Yet you’re rather quick to steal my life.’
‘A small sacrifice to save many. It is necessary.”
Source: Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“They do not love that do not show their love.
O, they love least that let men know their love.
(Which camp are you in?)”
“They do not love that do not show their love.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.”
“They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.”
Source: President Wilson's Addresses
“They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")”
“They do not see what they look at, hence they know not what they do.”
“They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives”
“They do not sweat and whine about their condition. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins.'' [...] To be a perfect animal and a perfect human - that was the ideal.”
Source: point counter point
“They do not think, therefore they are not.”
“They do not truly love who do not show their love.”
“They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.”
“They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.”
Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“They do not understand the pain of living with broken dreams.”
“They do not understand, therefore I shut every one out.”
“They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.”
Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“They do not wish to change people’s minds overnight. It is not their objective. What they see themselves doing is bringing in a new wave of Consciousness.”
Source: The Magdalene Lineage: Past Life Journeys Into the Sacred Feminine Mysteries
“They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.”
“They do say breastfeeding is nature’s lipo.”
“They do say money is the root of all evil."
I thought that was supposed to be the love of money."
There's neat for you. 'Tis them without it that loves it best.”
Source: At Swim, Two Boys
“They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.”
Source: The Leopard Hunts in Darkness
“They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.”
“They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain