T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay.”
“Trying to get to 124 for the second time now, he regretted that conversation: the high tone he took; his refusal to see the effect of marrow weariness in a woman he believed was a mountain. Now, too late, he understood her. The heart that pumped out love, the mouth that spoke the Word, didn't count. They came in her yard anyway and she could not approve or condemn Sethe's rough choice. One or the other might have saved her, but beaten up by the claims of both, she went to bed. The whitefolks had tired her out at last.
And him. Eighteen seventy-four and whitefolks were still on the loose. Whole towns wiped clean of Negroes; eighty-seven lynchings in one year alone in Kentucky; four colored schools burned to the ground; grown men whipped like children; children whipped like adults; black women raped by the crew; property taken, necks broken. He smelled skin, skin and hot blood. The skin was one thing, but human blood cooked in a lynch fire was a whole other thing. The stench stank. Stank up off the pages of the North Star, out of the mouths of witnesses, etched in crooked handwriting in letters delivered by hand. Detailed in documents and petitions full of whereas and presented to any legal body who'd read it, it stank. But none of that had worn out his marrow. None of that. It was the ribbon. Tying his
flatbed up on the bank of the Licking River, securing it the best he could, he caught sight of something red on its bottom. Reaching for it, he thought it was a cardinal feather stuck to his boat. He tugged and what came loose in his hand was a red ribbon knotted around a curl of wet woolly hair, clinging still to its bit of scalp. He untied the ribbon and put it in his pocket, dropped the curl in the weeds. On the way home, he stopped, short of breath and dizzy. He waited until the spell passed before continuing on his way. A moment later, his breath left him again. This time he sat
down by a fence. Rested, he got to his feet, but before he took a step he turned to look back down the road he was traveling and said, to its frozen mud and the river beyond, "What are these people? You tell me, Jesus. What are they?"
When he got to his house he was too tired to eat the food his sister and nephews had prepared. He sat on the porch in the cold till way past dark and went to his bed only because his sister's voice calling him was getting nervous. He kept the ribbon; the skin smell nagged him, and his weakened marrow made him dwell on Baby Suggs' wish to consider what in the world was harmless. He hoped she stuck to blue, yellow, maybe green, and never fixed on red.
Mistaking her, upbraiding her, owing her, now he needed to let her know he knew, and to get right with her and her kin. So, in spite of his exhausted marrow, he kept on through the voices and tried once more to knock at the door of 124. This time, although he couldn't cipher but one word, he believed he knew who spoke them. The people of the broken necks, of fire-cooked blood and black girls who had lost their ribbons.
What a roaring.”
Source: Beloved
“Trying to get today's Republicans to accept basic facts is like trying to get your dog to take a pill. You have to feed them the truth wrapped in a piece of baloney, hold their snouts shut and stroke their throats. and even then, just when you think they've swallowed it, they spit it out on the linoleum.”
“Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“Trying to get your sexual partner to make a monogamous commitment to you is not a loving thing to do; it's selfish.”
“Trying to gin up political violence for its electoral utility is - I think inarguably what we're seeing here. And I know that the Donald Trump campaign will not say that is what they're doing.”
“Trying to go faster than the Lord’s timing is like trying to cross a bridge before the entire structure is built. Trust God. Trust his timetable. He will help you traverse stormy waters safely.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.”
“Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.”
“Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.”
“Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!”
“Trying to heal while being in a relationship with a narcissist is like getting a flat tire caused by a metal nail stuck inside it. Spend decades healing, inflate the tire all you want, but until the metal nail is removed and the hole in the tire is filled, the car isn't going anywhere.”
“Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.”
“Trying to help is at best useless and at worst damaging; but to stop trying to help is to give up on humanity. Humanitarians are condescending hypocrites, but they are the best of us.”
Source: Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
“Trying to hide your mental health issues just to comply with the stereotype of a man will definitely be to your detriment.”
“Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.”
“Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.”
“Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.”
“Trying to ideate in business without thinking in terms of value is like trying to ideate in engineering without thinking in terms of physics.”
Source: Business Ideation: The Five Steps
“Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.”
“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.”
Source: The Last Novel
“Trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else’s experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.”
“Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.”
“Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time.”
“Trying to Jedi mind trick the towel into falling off me won’t work. You’re a rugby player not Luke Skywalker.”
He grinned. “I have a light sabre in my pants that says different.”
Oh he did. And he wielded that weapon of mass distraction well.”
Source: Playing With Forever
“Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.”
“Trying to justify someone may take a lifetime. Do you really need to justify someone?”
Source: Quantraz
“Trying to keep a society together, trying to keep the older and the younger people together, trying to keep those who live in rural areas together with those who live in cities is one of the most important and most noble tasks of politicians these days.”
“Trying to keep Rohan out of her thoughts, wondering endlessly if she should apologize for throwing herself at him, she traveled from shelf to shelf, rearranging the books by language, by historical period, by size, as was practical, and above all, alphabetically, by the writer's last name.
She had found multiple titles by individual authors scattered willy-nilly through the collection. It made her want to pull her hair out. Obviously!- an individual author's body of work all belonged on one shelf, the works arranged, in turn, by whatever system was most suitable: by volume number, alphabetically by title, or by the year of publication, or, in case of playwrights, works grouped by genre- tragedies with tragedies, comedies with comedies, histories with histories, and so on.”
Source: My Dangerous Duke
“Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living—in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive.”
“Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.”
“Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.”
“Trying to know all the secrets of the universe is not a spoiled luxury but a vital necessity! If we do not solve all the secrets and miss a very important detail that can threaten our existence, then we have made a mistake of extinction!”
“Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.”
“Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality. When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.”
“Trying to make a date by using Mushrooms.
(Channel Zero Season 1 Episode 4)”
“Trying to make a movie is a tawdry, soul-crushing, stress-inducing, backstabbing, sleep-deprived, caffeine-overdosed nightmare—and that's just Tuesday.”
“Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.”
“Trying to make certain things on the Internet totally private unless you subscribe. It's not going to work. If you can figure out how to close something down, somebody can figure out how to open it up. That's art.”
“Trying to make everyone happy is equally illusionary as drilling holes in the water.”
“Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we've arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn't matter.”
“Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins
Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is.”
“Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.”
Source: Self-portrait
“Trying to make peace with peace talks while overlooking divisionism is like trying to keep a boat afloat by peddling fast while overlooking the giant hole at the bottom.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Trying to make sense of love is like trying to dissect a rainbow.”
Source: Coffeehouse Angel
“Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.”
“Trying to make someone love you is like trying to climb uphill during an avalanche.”
Source: Blended Families An Anthology
“Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.”
“Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.”