T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.”
“They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.”
“They were wrong, he thought. She is better than Garbo.”
Source: Tabou: Jocelyn
“They were young black men, preying on other young black men. They had been informed, successfully, that they were worthless, and everyone who looked like them was equally without worth. Each sunrise brought a day without hope and each evening the sun set on a day lacking in achievement. Whites, who ruled the world, owned the air and food and jobs and schools and fair play, had refused to share with them any of life's necessities--and somewhere, deeper than their consciousness, they believed the whites were correct. They, the black youth, young lords of nothing, were born without value and would creep, like blinded moles, their lives long in the darkness, under the earth, chewing on roots, driven far from the light.”
Source: The Heart of a Woman
“They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...”
Source: The Distant Hours
“They were your friends?"
"Yes, they were my friends."
"And they will leave you to suffer alone?"
"Now I see it."
"And until this, were they friends you could trust?"
"I could trust them."
"I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind of friends that a good man could choose, upright, hard-working, obeying the law?
Tell me, were they such friends?
And now they leave you alone?
Did you not see it before?"
"I saw it.”
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard.”
Source: The electric kool-aid acid test
“They weren’t a centuries old hunter and a seventeen year old girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Bonnie and Damon.”
Source: Dark Reunion
“They weren't all bad men, Yrene. The ones I . . .I grew up with, whom I commanded . . . They were good men.' He saw Ress's laughing face, the blush the younger guard could never hide around Aelin. His eyes burned.”
Source: Tower of Dawn
“They weren’t blemishes dragging their feet across the earth, waiting for their time to die.”
Source: American Princess
“They weren’t books meant to be taken seriously. They were supposed to be an escape from the everyday reality that plagued them, and that was why Mercia adored them so. No matter how terrible her life got, the books were always there, ready to take her somewhere else.”
Source: A Game of Masks
“They weren’t friends. And they weren’t actually sisters. They were just two different girls from two different worlds.”
Source: Nightfall
“They weren’t happy memories because your father and I were never happy together. Even if we had been briefly and occasionally happy, everything got sullied, ripped up, and destroyed. But people don’t love each other only for happy memories. At a certain point in life, you realize that you just love the memories.”
Source: Caro Michele
“They weren't here to win the approval of the petty and the small-minded. They were here to save the innocent.”
Source: Marvels (1994) #4
“They weren't interested, because I was the one who wanted to join them, and not the other way around.”
“They weren’t on a yacht that was devoured by a hurricane. Yet they vanished. They weren’t in a private plane that dropped off the radar in a remote area. Yet they vanished. They’re home wasn’t washed away in a flood, they weren’t on the run from the law and didn’t owe the mafia a bunch of money but they vanished, without reason and without a trace.” From The Family That Vanished”
Source: True Stories of Crime and Punishement: The Crime, Investigation & Outcome
“They weren’t on a yacht that was devoured by a hurricane. Yet they vanished. They weren’t in a private plane that dropped off the radar in a remote area. Yet they vanished. They’re home wasn’t washed away in a flood, they weren’t on the run from the law and didn’t owe the mafia a bunch of money but they vanished, without reason and without a trace.” ---The Prophet of Life From The Family That Vanished”
“They weren't smiling and were looking in opposite directions, but it was as if their bodies flowed smoothly into each other's, through their arms and fingers. . . . There was a shared space between their bodies, the confines of which were not well delineated, from which nothing seemed to be missing and in which the air seemed motionless, undisturbed.”
Source: The Solitude of Prime Numbers
“They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.”
“They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.”
“They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'
“They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.”
“They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before.”
“They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.”
“They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.”
“They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)”
“They weren't true stories; they were better than that.”
“They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.”
“they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From whence then comes error In that while all men wish for a happy life they mistake the means for the thing itself and while they fancy themselves in pursuit of it they are flying from it for when the sum of happiness consists in solid tranquillity and an unembarrassed confidence therein they are ever collecting causes of disquiet and not only carry burthens but drag them painfully along through the rugged and deceitful path of life so that they still withdraw themselves from the good effect proposed the more pains they take the more business they have upon their hands instead of advancing they are retrograde and as it happens in a labyrinth their very speed puzzles and confounds them”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“They wheeled in golden carts covered in snacks and treats as pretty as treasure in a chest. There were cookies shaped like castles, tarts topped in glistening pastel fruit, poached pears in a swirling golden sauce, candied dates wearing miniature crowns, and oysters on ice with pink pearls that glistened under the light.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“They wheeled my father up. "Hi Dad," I touched his hand, which was locked down under a thick restraining belt. His sweat pants were stained with food; the socks on his feet were twisted and wrong. "We'll meet you inside," I yelled. My father craned his neck and answered: "Two. Four. Seventeen.”
“They wheeled my father up. "Hi Dad," I touched his hand, which was locked down under a thick restraining belt. His sweat pants were stained with food; the socks on his feet were twisted and wrong. "We'll meet you inside," I yelled. My father craned his neck and answered: "Two. Four. Seventeen."
The New York Times Magazine, LIVES”
“They whipped us like a tied up goat.”
“They whirled around in the light dance of a duchess entering a ball—majestic yet understated—a spiraling splash of purity of color that took shape under nature’s watch. A newly-sculpted garden burst forth, glistening in an afternoon sun. It welcomed the dusty pink rose, who stood beside its fellows, basked themselves in their own serenity of white, triumphant red, or cheery yellow. It swayed in the breath of a wind, caressing each and becoming more. It was a mixture of quiet and thunderous, light and dark, shyness and boldness. It was a mixture of the quiet strength and overwhelming courage that the human soul might wish to one day possess.”
Source: The Rose and the Sword
“They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"”
Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
“They whispered a tiny, brave prayer into the night. And somehow, the dark didn’t feel so dark anymore.”
Source: Fiso & Bento: A Nighttime Adventure: A Gentle Story About Facing Fears and Finding Friendship
“They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel
“They who always expect the worst are almost always pleasantly surprised.”
“They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.”
“They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.”
“They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.”
“they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.”
Source: FRESH LEAVES
“They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.”
“They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.”
Source: Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
“They who are to be judges must also be performers.”
Source: Politics
“They who ask for no sign shall have many.”
Source: The Root, the Rod and the Flower
“They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed
“they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment. And what can happen then? What can life do with this heap of half-broken things that they call their communion and that they would like to call their happiness, if that were possible, and their future? And so each of them loses himself for the sake of the other person, and loses the other, and many others who still wanted to come.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818