T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.”
“This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our results show that babies' minds are built to look for such rules - even without being told.”
“This is the universe in a nutshell - an instrument for measuring a portion of the stuff inside. And Planck's constant is its current measurement setting.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.”
“this is the upside of already being eternally damned”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“This is the upside to crashing: madly letting go and giving yourself to someone else. This is the freedom beyond the fear.”
Source: The Upside of Falling Down
“This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“This is the us you wanted us to be, Gwen.”
Source: Mystery Man
“This is the USA, smile and be nice! You are in the land of fake!!!”
“This is the Valdezinator, of course!’ He puffed out his chest. ‘It works by, um, translating your feelings into music as you manipulate the gears. It’s really meant for me, a child of Hephaestus, to use, though. I don’t know if you could –’
‘I am the god of music!’ Apollo cried. ‘I can certainly master the Valdezinator. I must! It is my duty!”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.”
“This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.”
Source: The Gospel According to John
“This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of course you must eat. You don’t really entertain the notion of going back. You, with some startling new level of clarity, realize that going back would be far worse than simply being as you are. This is obvious to anyone without an eating disorder. This is not always obvious to you.”
“This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.”
Source: Highway of Eternity
“This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.”
“This is the very ecstasy of love.”
“This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle and to fight for the common interest, to wield the power of brain and good right arm if need be for one's family, for the ordered community of life, for the state, for moral principles, humanity, and the common good.”
“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
“This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“This is the view I was saying I’d sell my van for. Not the mountains, not the river, but the three of you.”
“This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.”
“This is the vital difference between Conscious Beings, which we are morphing into organically, and those who are asleep or unconscious.”
Source: Devil's Inception
“This is the voice that sings
Where no one else can sing.
It will end too,
Yet its force you will carry forward
In your being, from dream to dream,
Into the flowering void.”
Source: The Void That Reflects Your Beauty
“This is the war where we change. This is the trickster war. It's where we disappear, just like they desire us disappear. I spoke it you before: They wish us blank," he said, gesturing without thinking at Dr. Trefusis, who was the nearest exemplar of the white race. "They want us with no history and no memory. They want us empty as paper so they can write on us, so we ain't nothing but a price and an owner's name and a list of tasks. And that's what we'll give them. We'll give them your Nothing. We'll give them my William Williams and Henry Henry. We'll slip through and we'll change to who we must needs be and I will be all sly and have my delightful picaresque japes. But at the end of it, when it's over, I shall be one thing. I shall be one man, fixed, and not have to take no other name. I shall be one person steadily for some years."
"This is why we got to win...If we ever wish to be one person, we got to win.”
Source: The Kingdom on the Waves
“This is the way addled liberals really think. Even as they champion sucking the brains out of little babies, they think of themselves as indelibly compassionate because they favor an overweening, behemoth federal government.”
“This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.”
“This is the way I address the issue if I’m asked about my sexuality: “I am a follower of Christ who happens to experience same-sex attraction.” Other Christians may struggle with all kinds of sin: gossip, greed, anger, pride, and so on. But I seriously doubt that they would identify themselves as a “greedy” Christian or a “gossiping” Christian. So why would I identity as a “gay” Christian?”
Source: A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption
“This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.”
“This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.”
“This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say?”
“This is the way I’ve always been. I think of the answer long after the person asking the question has lost interest and walked away.”
Source: The Kitchen Daughter
“This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.”
“This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed
ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!”
“This is the way it ought to be, he thought to himself, to be able to dance with a girl you like and really get a kick out of it because everything’ on an even keel and one’s worries are of the usual ones of unpaid bills and sickness in the family and being late to work too often. Wh can’t it be that way for me? Nobody’s looking twice at us. Nobody’s asking me where I was during the war or what the hell I am doing back on the coast. There’s no trouble to be had without looking for it. Everything’s the same, just as it used to be. No bad feelings except for those that have always been and probably always will. It’s a matter of attitude. Mine needs changing. I’ve got to love the world the way I used to. I’ve got to love it and the people so I’ll feel good, and feeling good will make life worthwhile. There’s no point in crying about what’s done. There’s a place for me and Emi and Freddie here on the dance floor and out there in the hustle of things if we’ll let it be that way. I’ve been fighting it and hating it and letting my bitterness against myself and Ma and Pa and even Taro throw the whole universe out of perspective. I want only to go on living and be happy. I’ve only to let myself do so.”
Source: No-No Boy
“This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.”
Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“This is the way of air travel: fellow passengers applaud because they didn't die, and then they cut in front of you so they can exit four seconds earlier.”
Source: The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
“This is the way of life – the old leave to give place to the young.”
Source: Galaxy Pirates
“This is the way of life. This is how life teaches us.”
“This is the way of lovers, isn’t it - to overqualify their experience? Who, in the midst of rush and longing, thinks, well, this love is mundane, inconsequential, and utterly unoriginal?
No. To those in the midst of falling, all love is great love. It would be insulting to suggest otherwise.
But still, at the risk of appearing biased or overly sentimental, might I suggest that even in the truth of this, some loves are different. And this was one of them.
It is commonly accepted that a love affair is only made great by time and history and by its discovery and retelling at a time long after the love has ended, by death or leaving. Hearts broken by distance or cruelty or the ultimate fallibility of the human heart. We believe that the greatness of a love affair can only be defined and named in retrospect—after it has been documented, proven, recognized by many.
But normal rules of love do not apply here, because this was not an ordinary love.”
“This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the world changes totally. It is no more the ordinary world you have known before. In fact, you have not known it at all. Your mind was distorting everything, your mind was creating fantasies. Your eyes were full of fantasies and you were looking though those fantasies. They never allowed you to see that which is. If the mind is gone, even for a moment, suddenly the whole existence explodes upon you.”
“THIS IS THE WAY OF PEACE: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love... My simple peace message is adequate - really just the message that the way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. One in harmony with God's law of love has more strength than an army, for one need not subdue an adversary; an adversary can be transformed.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“this is the way of the Communists - using good words to do bad things”
Source: Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China
“This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing.”
“This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.”
“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
Source: The Hollow Men
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”
“This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.”
Source: Hollowland
“This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.”
“This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.”
Source: Self-culture, lectures