T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Things don't exist until they exist.”
“Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.”
Source: Generations: a memoir
“Things don't get tough in the studio. Sometimes things get tough outside the studio and going in the studio is a relief, a sanctuary, therapy.”
“Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them.”
Source: Open City
“Things don't go away. They become you.”
Source: Half a Life: A Memoir
“Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“Things don't happen for no reason.”
“Things don't happen that fast in real life.”
“Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!”
“Things don't happen to us. They happen for us.”
“Things don't happen to you, they happen for you.”
“Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”
“Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.”
Source: The Body of Christopher Creed
“Things don't have to change the world to be important.”
“Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.”
“Things don't just happen, people make them happen”
“Things don't just happen, they have reasons. And the reasons have reasons. And the reasons for the reasons have reasons. And then the things that happen make other things happen, so they become reasons themselves. Nothing moves forward in a straight line, nothing is straightforward.”
“Things don't just happen; things happen just.”
“Things don't look hopeful for Darwinian naturalists.”
“Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.”
“Things don't matter, people do”
Source: Iris and Ruby: A Novel
“Things don't really go that well when people get back together.”
“Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!”
“Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.”
“Things done for self don’t count in living an effective life”
“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“Things don’t get better just because you want them to.”
Source: So Much Closer
“Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.”
“Things dribbled in in dribs and drabs through my 20s. But it was a struggle.”
“Things economic and social move by their own momentum and the ensuing situations compel individuals and groups to behave in certain ways whatever they may wish to do-not indeed by destroying their freedom of choice but by shaping the choosing mentalities and by narrowing the list of possibilities from which to choose.”
“Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.”
“Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?”
Source: Perfect You
“Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.”
“Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.”
Source: Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers
“Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.”
“Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“Things explain each other, not themselves.”
Source: The Selected Letters of George Oppen
“Things fall apart, Ciena. Our parents saw the Republic self-destruct. The Empire might last another year or another decade, but eventually there’s going to be a brand-new order and brand-new law. Who will you serve then?”
Source: Lost Stars
“Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.”
“Things fall apart, it's scientific.”
“Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.”
“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”
“Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful.”
“Things felt a little different and that was OK.
Life would never stay in one place, after all. I was just glad to have my friends.”
Source: A Most Important Year
“Things felt more messy than ever. Could someone treat you badly and still love you? Someone could treat you badly and you still love them, so maybe the reverse was true too. But just because you loved someone it didn't mean you had to give them another chance. Or maybe that's exactly what it meant.”
Source: Not My Problem
“Things fit only to give weight to smoke.”
“Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment.”
“Things flow better and everyone is in a better mood because they're like, 'I got my point across and it sounds like I want it to sound'”
“Things forbidden have a secret charm.”
“Things from the heart don't have an explanation.”