T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Those fake blue eyes stared back, mocking me. At least the tears didn’t show. Thank God. Instead, they ducked back into my eyelids as I tucked my sadness back into my core.... The more my mind flew off in one direction, the more my sanity shattered into pieces that no one could sweep up and glue back together.”
Source: Flirting with Chaos
“Those family photographs may speak a thousand words but most of them are lies.”
Source: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
“Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.”
Source: The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812 (Complete)
“Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.”
“Those favored with the double-portion flavor of affluence and influence often fail to express affection for the affliction of the unfortunate.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.”
Source: In Cold Blood
“Those feminist activists who refuse to accept men as comrades in struggle — who harbor irrational fears that if men benefit in any way from feminist politics women lose — have misguidedly helped the public view feminism with suspicion and disdain.”
Source: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
“Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.”
“Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.”
“Those fields of childhood, tall
Meadow-grass and flowers small,
The elm whose dusky leaves
Patterned the sky with dreams innumerable
And labyrinthine vein and vine
And wandering tendrils green,
Have grown a seed so small
A single thought contains them all”
Source: The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine
“Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.”
Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944
“Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.”
Source: Handbook for Preclears
“Those fierce animal passions of his were his masters, not his slaves, and he was as much their victim as those he punished when he was in their grip. And despite what he had done to me tonight, I knew that his desire was real. Even if all his need was for a living body and arms to hold him, it was still a bitter desperate need.”
Source: The Silver Devil
“Those fighters, the Syrian part that you're talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society - they don't have incubators anymore ; that's why they have incubators abroad. They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don't have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don't have problems.”
“Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.”
“Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?”
“Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.”
“Those first memories of my modeling career are not my favorite. At the beginning, it was tough. I was very lucky, my career took off very quickly, but still. All the memories I have about first casting in general - they're not nice. Just because there's so many girls, so much competition. I don't blame those casting directors, they see so many girls and they can't be nice to everybody. But you don't feel like a person, you feel like a number.”
“Those first seconds of silence echo with all the memories we've shared, all the memories we should've gone on to experience together.”
Source: A Million Worlds with You
“Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.”
Source: The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper
“Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they're not voting for you, b*tch.”
“Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.”
“Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave.”
“Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.”
Source: The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection
“Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.”
Source: Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?
“Those forearms were straight out of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast.”
Source: The Magnolia Chronicles: Adventures In Dating
“Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accurséd Ghost!”
Source: The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems
“Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.”
“Those freckles make you seem like a galaxy of stars, just waiting to be explored and loved.”
“Those French poetries in air, Are her whispers somewhere. The silence she breaks with her smile, And a thousand veils of sadness falls in my heart, With just a glimpse of her…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“Those friends last for years and years, but others aren’t meant to go the distance. It doesn’t mean the short ones are any less meaningful.”
Source: 10 Dates
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.”
“Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.”
“Those from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, become, as it were, trees growing on the sandy bank of a river.”
“Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.”
Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes
“Those fruity drinks better have a lot of caffeine in them or I'll never make it through World Issues.”
“Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.”
“Those Garveyites I knew could never understand why I liked them but would never follow them, and I pitied them too much to tell them that they could never achieve their goal, that Africa was owned by the imperial powers of Europe, that their lives were alien to the mores of the natives of Africa, that they were people of the West and would for ever be so until they either merged with the West or perished.”
Source: Black Boy
“Those Genes Could Have Been Mine”
Source: Kartography
“Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.”
“Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time!”
“Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.”
“Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious.
[Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]”
“Those girls are all so brave, where adult heroines are all so bitter, and I so strongly dislike what has become clear since childhood: the facts of visibility and exclusion in these stories, and the way bravery and bitterness get so concentrated in literature, for women, because there’s not enough space for them in the real world.”
Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you." "Of course they are," he said. "I am stunningly attractive.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.”
“Those gods on whom our power hitherto depended have forsaken their altars and their shrines and gone forth from us; the city which you would rescue is already ablaze; and it is for us to plunge amid the spears and die. Nothing can save the conquered but the knowledge that they cannot now be saved.”
Source: The Aeneid
“Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.”
“Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.”