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 want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“This is what I wanted. A victory to prove to myself, and show my doubters, that I stand worthy, loved, and am lovable. So why does it not feel such?”
“This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.”
“This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.”
“This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.”
“This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.”
Source: The Reckoning: Number 3 in series
“This is what I will do from now; I will hurt you.”
Source: The Book of Happy Endings: True Stories About Finding Love
“This is what I will forever hold against men in general: that they have carefully selected out and inoculated intelligent women with a sense of specialness: you're not like other girls. Damn, for a woman, you sure are bright as hell!”
“This is what I would ask of the American people, and that is, and the media does not do this terribly often - put things in contact.”
“This is what I would call old politics. This is the stuff we're trying to get rid of. Because the problem is, when we start breaking down into conservative and liberal, and we've got a bunch of set predispositions, whether it's on gun control, or its' on health care, any attempt to do health care is socialized medicine.”
“This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.”
“This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.”
“This is what I've always been interested in, trying to make timeless, functional, real clothes.”
“This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.”
“This is what income inequality means in America, and why the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider. According to a recent study, CEO pay is now 295 times more than the pay of a typical worker. In 1965, the differential was 20 times. We must create an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.”
“This is what intentional communities offer in the age of AI—spaces where we're present to each other and to the questions that matter, where we're not users or resources, but full humans creating meaning together.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)”
“This is what Ireland does. It calls her children home.”
Source: What the Wind Knows
“This is what is feared:
that flags do not nourish the blood,
that history is not glorious or truthful.”
Source: Speaking Wiri Wiri
“This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.”
“This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a concept often shocking to the secular modern Western mind - to people who calmly organize daily hecatombs of beasts, and who are among the most death-dealing carnivores the world has ever seen.”
“This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.”
Source: Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
“This is what is meant by the phenomenology of the science-making process: Self-observation always leads us to an existential point about the metaphysics of experience, and it is almost always a transforming moment. (p. 286)”
Source: Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America
“This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.”
“This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.”
Source: Anthony De Mello: Writings
“This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules
“This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.”
Source: While It Lasts
“This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.”
“This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.”
Source: The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
“This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.”
Source: The Star Dancers
“This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.”
“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.”
Source: The Clean House and Other Plays
“This is what it look like when it WORKS?”
Source: Cursor's Fury
“This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
“This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength but hardness. I am a trap, but so is everything. Pick your price. I am a huckster with a hand in your pocket. I am freedom and I will eat your heart.”
“This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.”
“This is what it means to be human “in the image of God.” It means being free to make choices instead of doing whatever our instincts
would tell us to do. It means knowing that some choices are good, and others are bad, and it is our job to know the difference.”
Source: When Bad Things Happen to Good People
“This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.”
Source: The Lake
“This is what it means to become wild again: it’s to peel back the niceties of society. I have had too many of these: the niceties. I have become one myself: a person like a platitude, pleasing and flat.”
Source: The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language
“This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.”
Source: 1Q84
“This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It’s a little bit like a black hole. It’s a little bit like infinity.”
Source: The Square Root of Summer
“This is what it means to love someone. You cook for them. You help them carry the weight of their own memories.”
Source: If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
“This is what it means to protect others. When people are threatened, you step in front of them and you shield them. You take the hits that were meant for them. You get cut, or shot, or stabbed… You get bitten, clawed, or infected. You hope none of those things happen, and you do everything you can to prevent them. Everyone wants to go home at the end of the day, but not everyone gets to, not in our line of work. It sucks – sucks hard – but we knew the job was dangerous when we took it.”
“This is what it means to say the heart is more than a pumping machine.
It is the most sophisticated instrument you possess — more sensitive than any technology, more precise than any measurement, capable of perceiving what no instrument can detect: the presence of the sacred, the movement of grace, the quiet unmistakable knowing that you are held, guided, accompanied.
But like any instrument of precision, it requires care. It requires attention. It requires that we take seriously the things that affect its clarity — the resentments we carry, the pride we protect, the distractions we indulge, the malice we allow to sit unexamined in its corners.
A neglected instrument drifts. It loses its calibration. It still functions — the heart still beats, life still continues — but something essential in its capacity for perception diminishes. Quietly. Gradually. Until one day we look up and realize we have been living in a kind of spiritual dullness so familiar we stopped noticing it was there.”
Source: From The Core: The Heart, the Light, and the Life You Were Meant to Live
“This is what it meant to be a you, to have. To be genetically cultivated as a perfect human specimen before birth—vaccinated and fortified, calibrated and optimized.”
Source: Want
“This is what it must be like for the newly dead looking in on the people you love from somewhere beyond--like walking on a pitch black street at night, passing windows of houses and looking in to see life, but life not seeing you.”
“This is what it's all been about with you," he said in an even tone. "All the fear, all the running. The nightmares." When she nodded, he said, "You called him the devil."
"He is." What are you thinking, Scot?
"But you... married him?"
MacRieve's disgusted with me. "Basically? Yes."
"Ceremony and everything?"
She swallowed. "He tricked me into it. I-I was only sixteen."
A muscle ticked in his cheek and his irises grew pale. "Then know this..."
She stopped breathing.
"Lass, I'm about to make you a widow--”
Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince