T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Turning the other cheek to an oppressor will leave you and your loved ones without a head, so foster peace in mind, but at the same time foster the courage to stand up to oppression.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“Turning the pages of scriptural history from beginning to end, we learn of the ultimate pioneer-even Jesus Christ. His birth was foretold by the prophets of old; His entry upon the stage of life was announced by an angel. His life and His ministry have transformed the world. . . . May we ever follow Him.”
“turning the pages patiently
in search of meanings”
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home.”
“Turning to politicians is the worst way to solve a problem.”
“Turning to the canvas bag, she pulled out a foil package. The smoky, buttery smell of naan made the different types of hunger coursing inside him mix together.
"Does your mom actually make naan at home?"
She opened the packet and held it in front of his nose, and he picked one up and shoved it in his mouth and almost died on the spot from the chewy, yeasty deliciousness.
"Mummy's made it since before homemade naan was a trend. My parents have always had an old-fashioned tandoor oven in the house. Because Dr. Kohli needs his naan and kababs." The brightness sparkling in her eyes dimmed.”
Source: The Emma Project
“Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness result in colour schemes containing 16, 64, 256 and 1,024 shades. More colours would be pointless because it wouldn't be possible to distinguish between them clearly.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“Turning toward what you deeply love saves you”
“Turning towards the light and moving towards it is not always the right path because evil sometimes uses light to hunt you!”
“Turning water into wine is no miracle,
It just means you are high on something.
Real miracle is to share your last drop,
With someone who is suffering.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Turning water to wine? I mean c'mon, that's stupid. They should have let me write the bible.”
“Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.”
Source: The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
“Turning wounds into wisdom, scars into strength. Your journey as a survivor is a source of empowerment for us all. Your courage lights the way for others to find their own resilience. Keep being the incredible soul you are!”
“Turning your back on the darkness didn't mean the darkness would turn it's back on you.”
Source: These Shallow Graves
“Turning your back will not change the direction of the knife.”
Source: American Mother
“Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.”
“Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 8: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815
“turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“Turns out all it takes to bring enemies to peace is a bigger enemy.”
Source: The School for Good and Evil Series
“Turns out faerie-proofing a person required a length of chain that one could find in any hardware store...”
Source: Hold Tight
“Turns out, falling in love with someone only brings that blissful high all the poets talk about if they love you back. And if they keep secrets that jeopardize everyone and everything you hold dear? Love doesn't even have the decency to die. It just transforms into abject misery. That's what this ache in my chest is: misery.
Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you've entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.”
Source: Iron Flame
“Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you.”
“Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking." "That was not a shriek," Jamie said with dignity. "It was a husky masculine cry of terror.”
Source: The Demon's Covenant
“Turns out
I'm still alive.
Not dead
Just suffering from severe shock.
And maybe
Which feels
LOVE.
just as terrifying and horrifying and exciting
as every worst-case scenario I ever studied.
Except this
I am totally, utterly unprepared for.
And maybe that’s what makes it so great.”
Source: Worst-Case Collin
“Turns out I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”
“Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.”
Source: Extras
“Turns out if you write about police violence and atrocities, if you wait a month, it'll happen again, so... That's America.”
“Turns out, ignorance often comes with an exciting, unexpected side effect: cruelty. To people who think they're the best the world has to offer, kindness is an afterthought and an unnecessary one at that.”
Source: Tricks for Free
“Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.”
“Turns out our heroes are simply those who’ve done some of the same things we could, if we didn’t spend all our time watching them.”
Source: Feast
“turns out patty’s a party animal, writes another, along with a GIF of Kristen Wiig dressed like a drunk Cinderella on an old episode of Saturday Night Live.”
Source: Tweet Cute
“Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.”
“Turns out that even when you try to keep your distance, you'll still end up getting attached.”
Source: When Dead Men Bleed
“Turns out that life can throw you in any kind of a situation, and you never know what type of knowledge might ever come in handy. But when it does, you feel happier than ever.”
Source: The Prison of Deviants
“Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world.”
“Turns out that once you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special "godslayer" term life policies. Charlatan's with "godproof" armor and extraplanar safe houses for rent. But most notably, other gods.”
Source: Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One
“Turns out that people who try new things, go new places, learn new skills, etc. are happier. This can be tough, because novelty and challenge also bring frustration and irritation - but if you can push through that, novelty and challenge can bring enormous happiness rewards.”
“Turns out that sitting backwards in an airplane is 10 times safer than sitting facing forward.”
Source: sciVive
“Turns out that when something gets cheaper, or more efficient, we just end up using so much more of the stuff that the savings disappear under a wave of increased consumption.
They call it the “Jevons Paradox”, and it applies to pretty much any human resource. Halve the price of computer memory, we'll increase demand by a factor of four. Increase solar efficiency by ten times, we'll suck back twenty times as much of the stuff. And you just know that if we resort to geoengineering to buy time—use stratospheric sulfates to compensate for ongoing carbon emissions, for example—people will just be that much less inclined to cut those emissions any time soon. We are not wired for restraint; let us off the leash, and we will devour whatever is available.”
Source: Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays
“Turns out the easiest way to schedule a meeting is to get arrested," said Zoya.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“Turns out there are cultural differences even in ice cream. Gwendal thinks our freshly churned strawberry ice cream doesn't have enough fruit to bear that name; I think it's heavenly. Apparently the French like their strawberry in the form of a hot-pink sorbet. I prefer this, dense and creamy. The taste of the raw milk--- even after a whirl in the pasteurizer--- really comes through. I'd like to congratulate the cows. The color is the faintest blush of pink studded with chunks of ripe red strawberry that resist under your teeth.”
Source: Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes
“Turns out, there are no synonyms for King.”
Source: Soft Science
“Turns out there's a reason they call it falling in love, because when it happens - really happens - that's exactly how it feels. There's no doing or trying, you just let go and hope that someone's going to be there to catch you.”
Source: Love & Gelato
“Turns out there's nothing easier than lying.”
Source: The Things We Don't See
“Turns out we've been eating the wrong things...since the dawn of civilisation”
“Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.”
“Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.”
“Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.”
“Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.”