T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“They will stare. They will stand to the side and watch her be alone.”
Source: Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories
“They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.”
“They will stop you with their opinion,
Your re-thinking will make create doubt inside you,
Once in that trap... it will go for hours and hours and hours....”
“They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.”
“They will take only a minute to realize we are playing guerrilla warfare. We are man-marking while they are spraying bullets randomly.”
Source: Ritualistic Murder
“They will tell us we can be better than queens of the wild great something. They already told us we couldn’t be fairy princesses or white knights or dragon slayers. They will tell us to grow up, be serious. They will tell us to fight for a spot at the table. But now, we don’t. We desecrate their tables. We dance on tables. We take really big swords and hack those tables into tiny little pieces.”
Source: Not the Girls You're Looking For
“They will tell you home is safe zone.
No, bitch face is safe zone.
Bitch face is home.
Bitch face is cutting off the ladder,
willing to burn in the apartment,
if it means he can't get in.”
Source: New American Best Friend
“They will tell you Shiloh was no cavalry battle; the field was too cut-up with ravines and choked with timber for the usual mounted work. However, none of Forrest's men realized this at the time and we had our moments”
Source: Shiloh
“They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.”
“They will tell you that to be political is to be merely angry, and therefore artless, depthless, "raw," and empty. They will speak of Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. They will tell you that great writing "breaks free" from the political, thereby "transcending" the barriers of difference, uniting people toward universal truths. They'll say this is achieved through craft above all. Let's see how it's made, they'll say- as if how something is assembled is alien to the impulse that created it. As if the first chair was hammered into existence without considering the human form.”
“They will try and pull you into all type of capers, but remember there is a price, always a price. You seen it on me when we went down. You seen it even today. There is a reason we forget. And those of us who remember, well, it is hard on us. It exhausts us.”
Source: The Water Dancer
“They will try to ascribe a purpose to my death, as though it were a punishment, but don’t you do so, in order that I continue to live in all the shadows of your longing. I will always be in your sleep and your wakefulness. I will be with you praying, propitiating and yearning for you, in sadness, in sorrow, in dismay and in the most profound happiness.”
Source: The Widower
“They will try to cage us. Attempt to limit, constrain, make us compliant, take control. No, they may never stop coming for us & our bodies. Remember: we were made for changing times & battle lines. Born of the wombs of paradigm shifters & revolutionaries. We have evolved & changed & demanded what is ours since the beginning of time. We will not stop now. No matter how much the ground shifts beneath your feet, you must remember: You are no lone wolf. You were born for the hunt. Strong men will cower before you. If they come for you—as they have & will—draw yourself into the fullness of your feral power, look them in the eye & remember: The howl of you can never be contained. A message to those who would try: Know this. To tame a wild thing is never an act of love. It is an act of containment, of force. A call against nature and instinct and the primal force of the shadows. Consider this your warning: I am calling things forth now. I am claiming space & defining territory. I am declaring my own agency & ownership of my body. I am rooting in ritual & rising in power. If you come to me now—if you want to love me, or gain access to my holy body, to make art by my side, enter my circle, or gain my trust—you must first listen, & listen well. The rules of engagement are mine alone, to make and break and change at will. Do not try to quiet my voice. Do not attempt to soften my edges or tame my prowl. I am inhabiting my wild. I am encompassing the dance. I am no longer burning down. That time is over. I am the white-hot ignition. I am starting the fire. I am rising like flame. Want to come with me? Then step closer to the heat. Meet me in the sliver of space between passion and truth where all is red-hot, & even the shadows are dancing. Meet me there, in the heart of the wild. Come with your naked skin & your own hallowed heat. Leave behind your attempts to control a damn thing. If you intend to love a wolf, you'd best come ready to hear her howl.”
“They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be.”
“They will turn you over, toss you about, fob you off, take you less seriously, because to get there, you must walk on your own feet.”
“They will want answers. Then they'll want silence.”
Source: GB84
“They will write you and call you and find you over and over again to tell you that you are nothing to them because you’re everything to them.”
“They win only when you stop moving forward. Remember that!”
“They woke up with their eyes, I woke up with my soul.”
“They wolfed wolfly in the wolf den.”
Source: Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
“They(women) go shopping as bees go flower visiting.”
“They won't be a right be a right time, Thea, it doesn't exist. Just get it over with”
Source: Hooked
“They Won't believe you until you succeed.”
“They won’t have to live in Hamilton under the gray skies. They will be able to know what
lies above the clouds and our dreams will give them wings. Until that day, remember to never give up. Hardships are soil, bad days are the sun, and sweat and tears give nourishing water to a seed that will birth a beautiful field where you can reap those dreams a hundred times over.”
Source: Other Side of the Tracks
“They won’t let any part of him fall to the ground,” says Raffe in a quiet voice. “His brothers will keep him from falling.”
In the distance, the Watchers weave a beautiful dance in the dawn sky beneath Beliel’s shower of fire.”
Source: End of Days
“They won’t let you walk home in this weather,” he said.
“They can’t stop me.”
“I won’t let you walk home in this,” he clarified. “You’ll sleep here tonight.”
Source: Nightfall
“They won't understand a thing until you beat it into them.”
Source: Wind Breaker 2
“They won’t want to put themselves in my shoes because they have Chuck Taylors and Stan Smiths while I have Sams Clubs.”
Source: SUS: Short Unpredictable Stories
“They won the war but lost the peace.”
Source: Rot & Ruin
“They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.”
Source: Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison
“They won't choose Joakim Noah as the MVP, but I think it's great that he's in the conversation and he should be. But it's just not the way it works, from my experience. It's got to go in the basket for you guys to pay attention to somebody. But he's pretty damn valuable in my opinion.”
“They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had”
“They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!”
Source: Notes from Underground (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)
“They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.”
Source: The Far Ends of Time and Earth
“They won't talk to you because I'm undercover.”
“They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.”
Source: Utopia
“They wondered about IUI and IVF. If fertilization happens in a lab, is the child still created out of love? . . . They came to see that assisted reproduction is still an act of love, albeit a less conventional one than 'making love' to have a baby.”
Source: Roads to Family: All the Ways We Come to Be
“They wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong.”
Source: Girls on Fire
“They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“They wore full-coverage raid suits, thick-filtered helmets, their gloves embellished with a ridge of claw-like, upturned hooks along each knuckle, all emblazoned with the logo of Atlas—Greek Titan of Endurance—shouldering the world in a neon blue silhouette.”
Source: Powdered Souls, A Short Story: They Decided to Survive
“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“They work behind your back, against you. But they always fail. Because they're not the masters of your destiny.”
“They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.”
“They worked hard all their lives, what they basically did was, they built a little Ukraine, a little society for themselves here in Brisbane. They did this in all the cities … not a ghetto, it wasn’t inward looking to that extent, but it was inward looking in the sense that it was a place to go—somewhere where you could identify; where you could be understood; go about remembering and preserving your roots. - Walter Sucharsky, 2nd Generation Australian”
Source: Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66
“They worm their way into our heads and touch us in a way that's more personal than any other school subject. Their lessons will sit quietly within us for years, until something awakens then: a particular set of experiences, a story in the news, maybe a personal crisis. When we reread them as adults, they can resonate with us in ways that we never dreamed of when we first met them.”
Source: Reading Lessons: The Books We Read at School, the Conversations They Spark, and Why They Matter
“They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.”
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
“they worry about my sanity i join with them on that”
“They worry about wasted money; I worry about wasted time. We are not the same.”
“They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.”
Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“They worry that I am assigning too much blame to the system and not granting "agency" to the low-income. They want me to say more about this group and they want me to suggest the right "nudges" that would push people to behave in certain ways. They want to know: what can we do to help "empower" the low-income so that they can help themselves?
The problem with this mindset - not of those who are powerless but those who are relatively powerful - is that power is not a frame of mind but a material condition. People sitting in positions of authority are powerful not because they feel empowered bu because they have power. Their feelings of empowerment are an outcome of their actual ownership of power, not the cause.
One can think - and indeed many of the low-income people I speak with do this - "I can do this. I must try". But if one is in fact lacking in power - lacking in control over time; lacking in leverage in the labour market; lacking in bargaining power with managers, teachers, social workers, landlords, creditors - no amount of merely changing how they think about themselves will change these realities.”