T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.”
“This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“This is what I learned at the hospital. You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining.”
“This is what I learned while I walked Hattie home:
Palmetto bugs are colossal roaches that thrive in hot climates and smell like Amaretto. They prefer the outdoors, but sometimes get lost and turn up in your house. If, as a five-year-old girl in Gainesville, Florida, you step into a steaming, oddly redolent shower, feel a light tap way up on your thigh, reflexively grab whatever just tapped you, find in your fist a roach with the heft of an operable pencil stub, fling it away, find a sharply bent leg affixed by its barbs to your middle finger’s meaty bottom phalange, repeatedly try to shake the leg off, repeatedly fail to shake the leg off, then sit in the tub and cry and cry, you’ll become a lyric poet, and your stomach will, from that day forward, repeatedly try to empty itself whenever you catch the scent of Amaretto.
So, gum or no gum, no kiss good night.
We dated nine months.”
“This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.”
“This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.”
“This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes.”
Source: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists: Reissued
“This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”
Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel
“This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.”
Source: The Talented Mr. Ripley
“This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.”
“This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.”
“This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, thats something a professional golfer has to handle.”
“This is what I love to do. I love to perform for people that get it or just want something interesting.”
“This is what I’m for. This moment.", FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fade
“This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.”
“This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .”
Source: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
“This is what I mean when I say that man is condemned to be free: condemned, because he did not create himself, yet nonetheless free, because once cast into the world, he is responsible for everything that he does.”
Source: Existentialism is a Humanism
“This is what I mean when I say that social justice isn't justice: justice is about a fair and impartial process, whereas social justice is about equal outcomes. Lady Justice is blind, holding equal weights, but Lady Social Justice would have open eyes, assessing the skin color, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and other characteristics of each party and placing her thumb on the scales accordingly, in an attempt to rectify either real or perceived, past or present injustices against one party.”
Source: Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion
“This is what I mean when I talk about ‘playing in the limitless.’ Imagine pleasure that surpasses all human understanding.”
“This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.”
Source: Cat's Eye
“This is what I most humbly feel,
If you do not love me, history will!”
“this is what i never allow myself to need.
and of course i've been needing it all along.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.”
“This is what I saw, in the reflections of the tomb." She whispered it almost to herself, broken-voiced. "It's what the goddess dreamed, but I thought I could prevent it. I thought you would choose the world over yourself."
"I'm far too selfish for that," Lore whispered.”
Source: The Foxglove King
“This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.”
“This is what I say to the most conservative person that's so terrified of gay marriage becoming legal. Just because the state says it's legal, it's not like God's going to let them into Heaven. So you can still sleep sound every night knowing that goal line defense is up at the pearly gates.”
“This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves.”
Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel
“This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.”
“This is what I signed up for. I’m not here going ‘Oh, they’re so mean to me, and it’s so hard for me.’ What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight. They pay me for it.”
“This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.”
“This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.”
“This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.”
“This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.”
“This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.”
Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940
“This is what I think. You can’t have everything at once. Like the pockets in your clothes, there’s a limit to how much we can have at once. There are times when to put something in your pocket, you have to throw something else away. You have to prioritize those decisions by yourself. There are things that you can’t get back once you’ve thrown them away.”
“This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.”
“This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.”
Source: Nausea
“This is what I undoubtably know… that my descent into my Self, is ultimately the True ascent of my-SELF.”
Source: THE TRAVELLER the untold stories of Cupid: consecution one
“This is what I've been protecting," she thought. "Just like it's been protecting me”
Source: A Midsummer's Equation
“This is what I've found about life, as I've gotten older: you start to lose people, Angela. It's not that there is ever a shortage of people - oh, heavens no. It is merely that - as the years pass - there comes to be a shortage of your people. The ones you loved. The ones who knew the people that you both loved. The ones who know your whole history. Those people start to be plucked away by death, and they are awfully hard to replace after they go.”
Source: City of Girls
“This is what I’ve found about life, as I’ve gotten older: you start to lose people, Angela. It’s not that there is ever a shortage of people—oh, heavens no. It is merely that—as the years pass—there comes to be a terrible shortage of your people. The ones you loved. The ones who knew the people that you both loved. The ones who know your whole history.
Those people start to be plucked away by death, and they are awfully hard to replace after they go. After a certain age, it can become difficult to make new friends. The world can begin to feel lonely and sparse, teeming though it may be with freshly minted young souls.”
Source: City of Girls
“This is what I’ve learned: The art is greater than you and your feelings. You have to serve it. It is not you. Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people who do understand it. And you need to understand it yourself. Whatever you’re creating may come from within you and your life, but then—almost like a child, it comes out of your body and it grows up and walks away. It walks away and affects other people you don’t know and have never met. That’s the beauty of it, and the reason I keep trying new things. You never know who it will effect.”
Source: A Scatter of Light
“This is what I want everyone to experience at the end of my concert...
everyone has this sense of rejoicing.
I don't want them to be blown away by what I do,
I want them to have this sense of real, real joy
from the depths of their being.
Because I think when you take them to that place,
then you open up a place where grace can come in.”
“This is what I want for entrepreneurs, especially for women: to believe in themselves, to dream bigger, reach higher, and to achieve success beyond their wildest expectations.”
Source: Been There, Run That
“This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.”
“This is what I want so don't be sad.”
Source: Hold Still
“This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.”
“This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us”
Source: All the Bright Places
“This is what I want you all to do. I want you to open a new document and type up a list of three problems in your life. Not the universe's life - your own. Underneath, type the solutions." "If we know the solutions," said Belle, "they're not problems." "Exactly," said Denny. "You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know.”
Source: A Corner of White: The Colors of Madeleine, Book One
“This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you.”
Source: Chime