T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.”
“Those were the only tears, that was the only smile, evoked from any human skull at the funeral of William Crow.”
Source: A Glastonbury Romance
“Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel
“Those were the places where many people mixed if they wanted to mix, which was against the law [Immorality Act of 1927]. My mother was part of that group. My father was part of that group. People who were black and whites and Indian and Asian - and you came together and said, we choose to mix at the risk of being arrested. And so they did.”
“Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even though her name was Nolan. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. But they were made out of thin invisible steel.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Those were the things on my mind [stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people], not career, money, drugs, sex, alcohol or fun. Not that there's anything wrong with any of those things, but they aren't in the film [Dream of Life], because that wasn't my life at the time.”
“Those were the things she hated: all those regrets, all those maybes.”
Source: A Cry From The Deep
“Those were the three words seldom asked to her.
Yet, she knew they hold a healing power in them; For they bring a million thoughts to the mind and more to the soul; For the answer is far deeper than what is simply said on the face.
She understood, so she asked him what was seldom asked to her,
"How are you?”
“Those were the tortures of the night. The tortures of the day consisted in pretending to eat, pretending to play, pretending to be happy, passing the hours, enduring the sympathetic looks and the loving remarks.”
Source: The Green Knight
“Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.”
“Those were thoughts I couldn't admit to him, of course. I might have been obsessed with him, but a woman knows if she wants to keep a man forever, she has to act like she could get over him in a day.”
Source: Verity
“Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.”
“Those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.”
“Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred.”
“Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so hokey anyhow.”
“Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.”
“Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing.”
“Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945
“Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.”
“Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.”
“Those who abuse wealth don't tend to stay wealthy for long.”
Source: The Rules of Wealth: A Personal Code For Prosperity
“Those who accept a situation find a way to get out of it. Those who try to run away from it suffer like a fly trapped inside a net.”
“Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.”
“Those who achieve great feats, are not carved from a different stone,
nor are they superhuman.
They just know and do things differently.
All of which can be taught and learnt if one is open.”
Source: Osu: A Coming of Age Novel - An Empowering Book of Self-Acceptance and Resilience
“Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.”
“Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.”
“Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.”
Source: 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“those who act as if everything is a joke are the people who have the most scars.”
Source: Replay: Lifeline
“Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.”
“Those who act from their heart feel that everyone acts from their hearts. Those who act from their head believe that everyone acts from their heads.”
“Those who act in the dark become even more unsure and uncertain of themselves. But the same people, when honor, praise, or approval is expressed by external signs, clearly become confident in their actions, for their spirit and judgment are strengthened by these signs.”
Source: Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
“Those who act like a mirror and show the true face of the nation to the nation itself are the real heroes of the nation, because all a nation needs is to see his real face, to see his faults!”
“Those who act on excitement act intermittently; this is hardly the way to avoid regression. Those whose understanding comes from emotional perceptions are as confused as they are enlightened; this is not a lamp that is constantly bright.”
“Those who act receive the prizes.”
“Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.”
“Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.”
“Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the general public the limits of what is understood at any serious level; these limits are typically very narrow in matters of significance in human affairs.”
“Those who actually dropped the bombs were less responsible than the people who took the decisions higher up the chain of command. In modern technological war, psychological responses are poorly correlated with degrees of responsibility. In people further back up the chain, this casual distance reduces the psychological resistance they have to overcome.”
“Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.”
“Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves - there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? - are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help - can you face him honestly?).”
“Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.”
“Those who adhere to the method of nonviolent direct action recognize that legislation and court orders tend only to declare rights; they can never thoroughly deliver them. Only when the people themselves begin to act are rights on paper given lifeblood.”
“Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.”
“Those who advise you against taking risks are limiting your pathways to opportunity and wealth.”
Source: Teach Your Child About Money Through Play: 110+ Games/Activities, Tips, and Resources to Teach Kids Financial Literacy at an Early Age
“Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.”
“Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of income taxation and the IRS, just as genuine freedom entailed the abolition, not the reform, of slavery.”
“Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the time and manner of one's death, without regard to what is chosen is presented as the ultimate freedom.”
“Those who advocate killing people of another religion or faith by labeling the latter as infidels are dick-heads; that too a bit too little.”