T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They know a lot, but they don’t know everything, and they can’t advise you on anything.
They can only tell you what they believe worked / or didn’t work for them.”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
“They know death is always a danger with my job, but they put it out of their minds and hope it will never happen to the person they care about.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“They know how to eat, shit, drive their cars, do menial work, watch television and produce equally stupid spawns of themselves; what the hell are they doing to help mankind?”
Source: Beast Machine
“They know how to play well but they do not know how to go through a whole tournament. We have been there and done it. They haven't.”
“They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.”
“They know how to win the battle because you tell them the tools they need to defeat you. Guard your heart, hold your tongue.”
Source: Life is not Complicated, You Are
“They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to eliminate from their thoughts and actions everything which subtracts from their purposes.”
“They know I have no choice, but if I did, they’d all be dead.”
Source: Mind Games
“They know, not because they "know," but simply because we have allowed them to know.”
“They know, not because they "know," but simply because we have allowed them to see a glimpse.”
“They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.”
“They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time.”
“They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people.”
Source: The Moon Is Down
“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”
Source: We Were Liars
“They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.”
“They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.”
“They know the outward shows of this life present but of the next life are they careless. Have they not consider the heavens and the earth and all that is between them but for a serious end, and for a fixed term? But truly most men believe not that they shall meet their Lord.”
“They know their crime," she said. "They know their shame.”
Source: Enchanted
“They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.”
Source: A Fine & Private Place
“They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in.”
“They know they're supposed to do something, but they're not sure what. And you know what they do when they're not sure-- of course you do: They either do the wrong thing or they do nothing, and it's a toss up as to which is worse.”
Source: The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook
“They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.”
“They know they’ve won,” Carter guessed. “They’re making a show of it.” “Yes,” Amos said. “Well, let’s blow up the boats or something!” I said. Amos looked at me. “Is that your strategy, honestly?”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“They know too well the violent hypnosis of those who hope to possess them-- men who can smell the blood on the places where a woman is breaking.”
Source: All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
“They know we’re friends,” I whisper. “Just tell them you wanted to show me something in your room.”
“What? Like my dick?” he hisses back.”
Source: Football Sundae
“They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.”
“They know what they are meant to do in life, and they do it exceptionally well. Some win awards; some make a lot of money; most are taken for granted. The store clerks. The bank tellers. The auto mechanics. The mothers. The world tends to recognize the unique and the loud, the rich and the self-serving, not who do ordinary things extraordinary well.”
Source: Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library!
“They know what they see isn't real, but they still long for it.”
Source: Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
“They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.”
“They know what you can do, and they are coming for you. They are coming right now.”
Source: Beyond Power
“They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.”
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed We have not truly known the Spring.”
Source: Saint-Gaudens: an Ode, and Other Verse
“They know you can't get people to stop smoking, so they develop a system of informants. That's the whole idea of second-hand smoke, you know. Make second-hand smoke dangerous and turn everybody against smokers. Then they say you can't even smoke in a bar - a bar! - because bartenders have a right to a smoke-free "workspace." Ah, bartenders, those health nuts.”
“They know you're a football player and part owner of a cupcake shop. But that's what you do, not who you are."
Beautiful, impactful words from a beautiful, impactful woman.
She stopped when she noticed him watching her. "Sorry, I talk with my hands. It helps me think."
He knew. She was in her element. It was the sexiest thing he'd ever been fortunate to witness.
"I'm going to give them that," she continued. "And that's going to lead to them coming down here to buy cupcakes and put money in y'all's pockets. You want to be a star, right?"
No. "Yes."
But he was committed. It was time for him to come out of the shadows. Time to take control of his life and make himself worthy of... His eyes flickered to Sloane. Make himself worthy of someone to love.”
Source: A Legend in the Baking
“They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.”
“They know your face, but not your mind.
They understand your words, but not your heart.
They hear your name, but not your soul.
They grasp your past, but not your future.”
“They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."”
“They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“They laid down their lives
in the arms of waves.”
“They laid me down again while somebody fetched a stretcher. As soon as I knew that the bullet had gone clean through my neck I took it for granted that I was done for. I had never heard of a man or an animal getting a bullet through the middle of the neck and surviving it. The blood was dribbling out of the comer of my mouth. ‘The artery's gone,’ I thought. I wondered how long you last when your carotid artery is cut; not many minutes, presumably. Everything was very blurry. There must have been about two minutes during which I assumed that I was killed. And that too was interesting—I mean it is interesting to know what your thoughts would be at such a time. My first thought, conventionally enough, was for my wife. My second was a violent resentment at having to leave this world which, when all is said and done, suits me so well. I had time to feel this very vividly. The stupid mischance infuriated me. The meaninglessness of it! To be bumped off, not even in battle, but in this stale comer of the trenches, thanks to a moment's carelessness! I thought, too, of the man who had shot me—wondered what he was like, whether he was a Spaniard or a foreigner, whether he knew he had got me, and so forth. I could not feel any resentment against him. I reflected that as he was a Fascist I would have killed him if I could, but that if he had been taken prisoner and brought before me at this moment I would merely have congratulated him on his good shooting. It may be, though, that if you were really dying your thoughts would be quite different.”
Source: Homage to Catalonia
“They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava dust to sleep, and they set forth in the afternoon down the valley following the war trail and they were very small and they moved very slowly in the immensity of that landscape.
Come evening they hove toward the rimrock again and Sproule pointed out a dark stain on the face of the barren cliff. It looked like the black from old fires. The kid shielded his eyes. The scalloped canyon walls rippled in the heat like drapery folds.”
Source: Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“They landed at Simon's feet. "Take your clothes and go!" Isabelle shouted.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“They laugh at feminism from the comfort of privilege, blind to the chains it seeks to break.”
“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.”
“They laugh at you because they don't have the capacity to fight with you”
“They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable
Not because what I said was wrong
Whatever it may bring
I will live by my own policies
I will sleep with a clear conscience
I will sleep in peace”
“They laugh when they're embarrassed, they cry when they're happy, and they try to choke you to death when you do something nice for them.”
Source: Guardian
“They laughed at Edison and Einstein, but somehow I still feel uncomfortable when they laugh at me.”
“They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.”