T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.”
“This is our thing now, right? Letting chance decide?”
Source: When Summer Ends
“This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?”
“This is [our] true predicament: together with the fear of man we have lost the love of man, the affirmation of man, the will to man."
— Friedrich Nietzsche”
Source: Love and will
“This is our true tie," he whispered, his breath falling hotly onto my lips. "You're meant for me, and I will have you.”
“This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.”
Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts
“This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.”
“This is our world now The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.”
“This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.”
“This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.”
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
“This is our world, and we must make the best of it.”
“This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.”
“This is outrageous!
Are butt cracks contagious?”
Source: I Need a New Bum!
“This is over 10 years in the making for me and just a dream come true. I'm the luckiest person in the world.”
“This is overdue. Quite a bit, I'm afraid. I apologize. We moved to Topeka when I was very small, and Mother accidentally packed it up with the linens. I have traveled a long way to return it, and I know the fine must be large, but I have no money. As it is a book of fairy tales, I thought payment of a first-born child would be acceptable. I always loved the library. I'm sure she'll be happy there.”
Source: Uncanny Magazine Issue 3: March/April 2015
“This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.”
“This is part of the answer to the riddle of
childhood unhappiness: their minds need, and deserve, a whole world of utterly unfenceable freedom where everything has othering, everything is radiant with the possibilities of
elseness.”
“This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.”
“This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination' in the title of the essay, the fascination of art and creativity, stands in opposition to what is called 'Liberation'.”
“This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.”
“This is part of the ongoing campaign that is brought to you by the Democrat Party and the media to create doubt. This whole thing is an illusion. They're trying to make you believe - and I think they probably have, if you're looking for a remedy. They're trying to make you believe that this thing could be taken away from Donald Trump, that they're making really great progress, and that they might need only, like, 10 more.”
“This is part of the president's problem. Where's Barack Obama been when the crime rate and the murder rate in Chicago has gone up in 18 percent? Where has he been when the murder rate in New York is up 11 percent? Instead he and liberals like Bill de Blasio and Rahm Emanuel and others, what they're doing is not supporting the police departments, not making sure that they're being supported, and they're letting them do their jobs. And so we have criminals who have easy access to guns.”
“This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there’s someone who is watching out for them. It’s what I missed so much when my mother died—what I call your ‘spiritual security’—knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard, we think Him cruel. But He's only looking for men and women who will keep their cool when things go horribly wrong, a people prepared to dash into burning rooms to rescue those about to be engulfed in flames.”
“This is particularly true of those who "love too much" and those who tend to lose themselves in their relationships. Sometimes our love becomes distorted by our feelings of insecurity and our fear of abandonment. This is the often the case with those who become overly controlling and overly smothering of their partner. Others become emotionally abusive because of their fear of intimacy.”
Source: The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing
“This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.”
“This is passive-aggression in action.”
“This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge.”
Source: Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels
“This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.”
Source: Something New: Or, Something Fresh
“This is Penryn Young, Daughter of Man, Killer of Angels.”
Source: End of Days
“This is perdition: the things to which the heart was attached pass away while the person himself, who is an eternal being, is filled with nothing but emptiness when he should have been filled with God Himself. That is why it is so very important that we turn our focus inward to the source of life that lives forever, even as we ourselves will live forever.”
“This is perfect for India because everyone who comes here gets the trots.”
“This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and to change what we see, it is sometimes necessary to change what we believe.”
Source: The Cosmic Serpent
“This is perhaps the best feeling in the world. I love going to sleep at night and wondering what weird and wonderful dreams I'm going to have however I always prolong sleep as long as possible, immeasurably happy simply listening to the sound of my fiancees breathing and feeling his arms around me. It's when you fall in love with these little things that you know you're truly in love.”
“This is perhaps the central and most consistent cruelty of avoidance — that it inflates what it fears. The difficult conversation, approached with honesty and genuine care, is rarely as devastating as the months of anticipation suggested. The painful feeling, when finally allowed to surface and move through, is rarely as overwhelming as the years of outrunning it implied.”
Source: THE SELF WAS SIMPLY IN THE WAY
“This is perhaps the cruelest feature of the performing self: it makes us lonely in the very moments designed for connection. We are in the room, but we are not truly with the people in it. We are managing our image while they manage theirs, and the real meeting — the one that would actually nourish us — never quite happens.”
Source: The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out
“This is, perhaps, the greatest challenge of our time – to love in the absence of any immediate rewards for our love.”
Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
“This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are loving are warm and gracious, but can we be gracious and mellow in the face of bitterness, jealousy, hatred, withdrawal? That's the litmus test of love.”
“This is perhaps the hardest truth of any to grasp. Do we wake up every morning amazed that we are loved by God?”
“This is perhaps the inevitable way of the world when the love being born is not first love, not young love, not innocent, but following upon hard experience. Be careful, the world admonishes us. Don’t get hurt again.”
Source: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
“This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.”
“This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written”
“This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.”
“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.”
Source: The Other Voice: Essays on Modern Poetry
“This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.”
“This is perhaps the saddest experience in the demise of love and the most difficult for the imagination to encompass: to come to know that someone who loved you once now regards you as boring and annoying and unimportant. Sheer hatred might even be preferred to this.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.”
Source: Just Listen
“This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.’ ‘No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart’s beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?”
Source: Royal Assassin
“This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection