T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Things are solved by walking around.”
“Things are sometimes better left as they are, but you can't be sure until you change them.”
“Things are sometimes faded but they will always become clear, where there seems nothing but bad look closer, you’re sure to find good.”
Source: Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
“Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.”
“Things are strongest where they're broken.”
Source: Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
“Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone.”
Source: The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi
“Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.”
Source: The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more
“Things are symbols of themselves.”
Source: The Human Street: Photographs
“Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another.”
“Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.”
“Things are to be used and God is to be loved. We get into trouble when we begin to use God and love things.”
“Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.”
“Things are tougher than we are, just
As earth will always respond
However we mess it about.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Things are useless without practice.”
“Things are very different now because a lot of those little clubs don't exist. In Soho for instance, where nearly half my nightlife photographs were taken, it's rapidly changing. There isn't the same after dark frisson of excitement about the place any more.”
“Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.”
“Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.”
Source: The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter
“Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.”
Source: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
“Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed,
So shall they be fulfilled.”
Source: Complete Plays of Robert Browning
“Things are working out... towards their dazzling conclusions.”
“Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale”
“Things aren’t brought to light because of the illusion of fear and we don’t want to shatter the illusion because we can go on living within multiple realities, where we can unfairly hold someone to an
expectation they are unaware of.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of existence, some parallel, "right" universe, and had sensed that our time had somehow been put out of joint. Such was his vehemence that I found myself believing him, believing, for example, in the possibility of that other life in which Vina had never left and we were making our lives together, all three of us, ascending together to the stars. Then he shook his head, and the spell broke. He opened his eyes, grinning ruefully. As if he knew his thoughts had infected mine. As if he knew his power. "Better get on with it," he said. "Make do with what there is.”
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.”
“Things aren't always what they seem
You're only seeing part of me
There's more than you could ever know
Behind the scenes.”
“Things aren't black and white in the world.”
“Things aren't different. Things are things.”
Source: Neuromancer
“Things aren't ever what they seem to be when you first look at them. What's important is that you keep your mind wide open and try to understand what's going on from a lot of different angles.”
Source: Bucking the Sarge
“Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq.”
“Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Things aren't magically better if that's what you're hoping for. It's not that simple.”
“Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?”
“Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are”
“Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.”
“Things around here function on lies because if people knew the truth, it wouldn't work.”
Source: The Council
“Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.”
“Things as they appear every day and as they are engraved in our memory, facts and occurrences as they are perceived by senses, create an intricate labyrinth in the mind. The way how things are experienced in our environment and how they react in the arsenal of our imagination, creates a torrent of inspiring ideas that flood the speedy highways of our brains.
( " Labyrinth of the mind " )”
“Things as they are clash with things as our top-down invariant processes expect them to be. We shove sensation through the filter of the past to make the future predictable. In the process, we lose the present. But because the present is all that exists, we have lost everything in the bargain.”
Source: The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
“Things at home didn't change much. I still have to clean my own room!”
“Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.”
Source: Shakspere's Play of Macbeth
“Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
Source: The Tragedy of Macbeth
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity”
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.”
“Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.”
“Things began happening with odd synchronicity, as if the universe itself was conspiring on behalf of their love story.”
“Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence. The other band members were quick to let go of their musical dreams, but I never did. They did the ‘mature’ thing: after writing off the band as a teenage fantasy, they got real jobs and made some money. They called it growing up. I called it giving up.”
Source: Metallic Dreams