T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Time was made for slaves.”
“Time was mathematically explicable; it was the heart—the part of the brain represented by the heart—that was the mystery.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“Time was not a line, but an awareness. I was no longer a body, but a series of pieces whistling as they bonded. I felt every cell within me. I could count them, name them, kill them, and resurrect them. Within the core, I was a tower made of fossil fragments. I could be disassembled and reassembled. If only someone knew the correct pressure point, I would turn into a pile of elements running off to find another bond, like seasonal farmhands journeying from East to West.”
Source: Spaceman of Bohemia
“Time was not on their side, it was the enemy.”
Source: Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals
“Time was not only borrowed, it was charging interest.”
Source: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.”
“Time was of no consequence and I just hoped that eternity would start now. The person I used to be had suddenly ceased to exist. I was melting and being remodeled into nothing but the hand he was just holding right now.”
Source: Egypt: The Uprising
“Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.”
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.”
Source: Love Medicine
“Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.”
“Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.”
Source: Raven's Strike
“Time was the most precious thing in the world to me, and I’d just given her all of it. Because I was falling for her. Because I cared for her. Because I wanted to give her something to remember me by, even if it would eventually fade like its namesake. Time… what an absolute horror-inducing word”
Source: Ruin
“Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.”
Source: The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel
“Time was this place didn’t make sense and I could live with it. Either it’s changed, or I have.”
Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City
“Time was ticking right now. She had to read. This was the shortest of the six articles. She knew that because for the last hour, she had scrolled through all six, looking at how long they were and figuring out what to read first.”
Source: Nine Liars
“Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time.”
“Time was unending when charmed, captivated, even delighted by the mystical motion of the ocean!”
Source: KRILL AMERICA
“Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of acquaintance confined to occasional calls upon one another; but that is now at an end; they are drawn together and are constantly becoming more and more intimately related and connected by a thousand fresh ties, and we may confidently look forward to a time when they shall form but one body with one soul.”
Source: The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter
“Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but
now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.”
Source: Heroides ; and, Amores
“Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the line is the subject of a broad, heated debate throughout the country, a debate that becomes louder with each new medical miracle or impossible case.”
“Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.”
Source: The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
“Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.”
Source: Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays
“Time was when people went to church to meet God. Now they go to hear a sermon about Him.”
Source: Revival God's Way
“Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.”
“Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“Time-washed - A Haiku
Feelings ebb and flow,
Sandy shore of fleeting time,
Footprints of the heart.”
Source: On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage
“Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.”
“Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“Time wasted can never be compensated”
“Time wasted is equivalent to a wasted life”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“time wasted is not always a waste of time.”
Source: Seaside
“Time wasters are life wasters”
“Time wasters will never feel bad about wasting your time. That is why you should never feel bad about preserving your time.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume, with a Life of the Author
“Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.”
Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes
“Time wears all his locks before,Take thy hold upon his forehead;When he flies he turns no more,And behind his scalp is naked.Works adjourn'd have many stays,Long demurs breed new delays.”
Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell
“Time weaves its course into an intricate and vibrant mantle that some undo by going back to where their personal experiences started.”
Source: Insights of A Rebel Mind: Embracing The Power Within
“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there - to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there—to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.”
Excerpt From: Haruki Murakami. “Kafka on the Shore.” iBooks.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.”
“Time well spent adds to life well lived.”
“Time well spent is like a whetstone, it sharpens our minds and refines our imperfections.”
“Time well spent leads to life well lived.”
“Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.”
“Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.”
Source: Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling
“Time went on. Whatever happened, nothing happened, because she was so beautifully out of contact . . . Time went on as the clock does, half-past eight instead of half-past seven.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover