T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.”
“This is his home, and this is the city he wants to be in. He doesn’t want to live under siege for the rest of this life, but to abandon the city to the men on the hills would mean that he would be forever homeless. As long as he’s here, and as long as he can keep his fear of death from blinding him to what’s left of the world he once loved and could love again, then there’s still hope that one day he will be able to walk openly down the streets of this city with his wife and son, sit in a restaurant and eat a meal, browse the windows of shops, free from the men with guns.”
Source: The Cellist of Sarajevo
“This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.”
Source: Henry IV
“This is historically what happens whenever revolutionaries begin to take the oppression and suffering of their fellow beings seriously, whether human or nonhuman. It's regrettable that certain scientists are willing to put their families at risk by choosing to do wasteful animal experiments in this day and age.”
“This is history written in lightning.”
“This is Hollywood. You know you only choose to live in the third world.'
'I was just thinking about dipping a cookie in milk for just the right interval so that it permeates the cookie without causing it to become soggy and overwhelm the flavor.”
Source: Thousands of Lies
“This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.”
“This is home.”
Source: Wet Matches
“This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.”
“This is home, it's the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It's the same as it ever was except without the people who most belong here.”
“This is hope: knowing God is aware of answers and options you do not presently see.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“This is how 99% of people select their jobs: pay, work environment, hours. But that's the point. Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling.”
Source: When Breath Becomes Air
“This is how [the] sport has contributed to my personality, toughness and discipline. I have a plan, and I work on it. I was going to add [the] before the word sport since I thought was either a typo or a problem translating what she said, but then I thought it made sense without it too , so I left it as is. Just know that that's not a typo on my part.”
“This is how a faerie loves: with her whole body and soul.
This is how a faerie loves: with destruction.
This is how a faerie loves: with a gift.”
Source: Pale Kings and Princes
“This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.”
Source: Cell: A Novel
“This is how all nights begin and end.”
Source: The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea & Heart of the Earth: A Popul Vuh Story
“This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.”
Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel
“This is how apathy goes:
First, old joys become new sorrows.
Then all your mornings in bed transcend into eternities.
Your best friend no longer calls because the new self is unrecognizable.
And your father. Your father feels unfamiliar because you are growing and he is not.”
“This is how being rude is these days. I tell it like I see it. I’m just being honest. The language of the bully. We all know how this is.”
Source: Still Me
“This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions.”
“This is how corporate government disability works for many sickened people: Year 1. Application = benefits denied; Year 2. Appeal = benefits denied; Year 3. Appeal to judge = benefits denied and the corrupt corporate government wishes you the best of luck with your disabilities and future life of extreme poverty.”
“This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.”
“This is how diseases are usually spread. Someone spits on a guy, somebody has sex with a chimp. Next thing you know . . . AIDS.”
“This is how every fairy tale starts. With the storyteller explaining to the reader just how it is. There once was a girl named Milly who was the wolf’s coveted meal. Whose father left her in the clutches of an evil stepmother. Whose stepmother imprisoned her with monsters.”
Source: Counting Wolves
“This is how God made me. You are how God made you. All God's chillun are made how God made 'em. You think God made a mistake, take it up with Him.”
“This is how God saved my marriage and I trust that He can work in your life too. Would you allow Him to?”
“This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness”
“This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.”
“This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton's famous phrase. Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a flood plain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age.”
Source: The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
“This is how hatred begins -- with a muffled laugh on a hot night and a knock on the door.”
Source: Wave Me Good-bye
“This is how he always imagined- a dangerous place full of mystery and violent kids.”
Source: Unwind
“This is how he came out: he floated into the air high above the sleeping forest, his green hat spinning a few feet above his head. In his hand was the open suitcase and out of it spilled a whole sky of stars.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“This is how I chose myself to be no matter how others behave I still stick loyal & honest to myself!”
Source: BUHAY PINOY SA AMERIKA
“This is how I define grace: youre on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. Thats where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know Im prepared.”
“This is how I feel about everything that's out of your control: once you make a record, it's not yours anymore. There's nothing you can do. It's the way I feel about political movements - both of those things grow on their own.”
“This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.”
Source: Every Last One: A Novel
“This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went, like a talisman in my pocket, thinking of them as almost more real than the people around me, who spoke and lived in denial, destined, I thought, to never do anything worth recounting.”
Source: Swimming in the Dark
“This is how I lose weight:
Time to raid the stores and buy as much junk food as I can!
OOPS! Oh, well, I will start on my diet next week.”
“This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.”
“This is how I want man and woman: fit for war the one, fit for bearing children the other, but both fit to dance in head and limb. And let each day be a loss to us on which we did not dance once! And let each truth be false to us which was not greeted by one laugh! --------------------------------------------Thus Spoke Zarathustra, chapter 56 (Old and new tables), number 23”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“This is how I want you to remember me now, the one who hates you, who wants to see you suffer, who laughs at you for the joke you have become in your own people, who regrets ever giving you a place in my life, and who knows the evil you hide. And soon, I will enjoy seeing you lose everything you tried to take away from me.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“This is how I will portray you, I'll trace your features on paper as the sea, after a fearful storm has churned it up, traces the form of the greatest, farthest-reaching wave on the sand. Seaweed, shells, cork, pebbles, the lightest, most imponderable things that it could lift from its bed, are cast up in a broken, sinuous line on the sand. This line endlessly stretching into the distance is the frontier of the highest tide. That was how life's storm cast you up on my shore, O my pride, that is how I'll portray you.”
“This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.”
“This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.”
Source: Selected poems
“This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.”
Source: The Death of Bunny Munro
“This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever:
The first dawn of light in your universe brings pain.
The light burns you. It will always burn you. Part of you will always lie upon black glass sand beside a lake of fire while flames chew upon your flesh.
You can hear yourself breathing. It comes hard, and harsh, and it scrapes nerves already raw, but you cannot stop it. You can never stop it. You cannot even slow it down.
You don’t even have lungs anymore. Mechanisms hardwired into your chest breathe for you. They will pump oxygen into your bloodstream forever.
Lord Vader? Lord Vader, can you hear me?”
Source: Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
“This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.”
Source: All These Lives
“This is how it happens: the sun flies slower and slower, until it hangs suspended, motionless. And everything is locked, imbedded for eternity in greenish glass.”
Source: The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
“This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.”
Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts