T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.”
Source: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001
“Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both feel responsible. But it is a rare man who can marry one of them and continue the home-making partnership.”
Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution
“Two cakes? Are you trying to make us all obese?"
"Yes, Millie. That's why I bake for the office. To make you all obese."
Millie raises an eyebrow. "I don't see why you couldn't bring in something healthy every once in a while."
Adam once told me that when Millie was thirteen, her mom sent her to fat camp, and from what I can tell, she has lived in mortal fear of eggs and butter ever since. I am about to remind Millie that the carrot cake does contain vegetables, and therefore possess a modicum of nutrition one could rationalize into healthfulness,”
Source: The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs
“Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs.”
“Two can live as cheaply as one--if one doesn't eat the other goes naked.”
“Two can live on what won’t do for one”
Source: The Wild Geese
“Two cannibals eating a clown. One asks the other, 'Does this taste funny to you?'”
“Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?”
“Two categories of people can be found in the world today. There are those who make things happen and there are those who watch things happen. A spectator watch things happen while a player make things happen. In the same vein, history writers watch things happen and history makers make things happen. This is why history writers are always at the mercy of history makers.”
“Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun”
Source: My Five Tigers
“Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the queen of mathematics." Queens are regal, but they are also largely decorative, and this nuance was not lost on Gauss.”
“Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream.”
Source: Jimmy Carter
“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions”
Source: The Damned
“Two centuries of electromagnetic radiation development has been an absolute biological disaster that is being covered up as ‘Advancement’.”
“Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.”
Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]
“Two chemicals called actin and myosin evolved eons ago to allow the muscles in insect wings to contract and relax. Thus, insects learned to fly. When one of those paired molecules are absent, wings will grow but they cannot flap and are therefore useless. Today, the same two proteins are responsible for the beating of the human heart, and when one is absent, the person’s heartbeat is inefficient and weak, ultimately leading to heart failure.
Again, science marvels at the way molecules adapt over millions of years, but isn’t there a deeper intent? In our hearts, we feel the impulse to fly, to break free of boundaries. Isn’t that the same impulse nature expressed when insects began to take flight? The prolactin that generates milk in a mother’s breast is unchanged from the prolactin that sends salmon upstream to breed, enabling them to cross from saltwater to fresh.”
Source: The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
“Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.”
“Two children, all alone and no one by,
Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze
Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet
Dance sedately; face to face they gaze,
Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.”
Source: Laurence Binyon
“Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.”
“Two choices and powers as negativity and positivity in mind can turn into a dilemma that blocks the ability to decide a right and suitable initiative and move.”
“Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.”
Source: Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]
“Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting, hungering, seeking! And the great sinners came closer to Him than the proud intellectuals! Pride swells and inflates the ego; gross sinners are depressed, deflated and empty. They, therefore, have room for God. God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless 'saint'. Love can be trained; pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows will rarely find truth; the man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner, like the woman at the well, is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows.”
Source: Life of Christ
“Two clean-shaven, pink-skinned cops got out of the car. I got up from my chair and stood with my hands on my hips, waiting for them to get close enough for me to holler a greeting in French—the less American I seemed, the better.”
“Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?”
“Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.”
“Two coconuts dropped beside him. Each went about its death throes with a slight bounce and languorous crawl then fell still.”
Source: Everautumn
“Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.”
Source: The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [Illustrated – 2 volumes in one]
“Two committees in the house were up all night long trying to get a version of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act passed. House Republicans are just fighting tooth and nail to pass it in the House, to try to get it into the Senate, to try to make it then so that the Senate will get on board. But you know who one of the Republican senators is who`s not on board with this anymore? Senator Tom Cotton.”
“Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.”
“Two company senior managers escorted me during the Desoto Solar Farm President Obama launch. They were like my shadow!”
“Two completely difference people accepting each other's differences and becoming friends might come across as a cliche in a movie or a drama.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.”
“Two conditions that warrant someone's unconditional devotion: 1. Save their life 2. Help them move a pillow top mattress”
“Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.”
Source: Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith
“Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.”
Source: Heaven and Hell: Also the World of Spirits Or Intermediate State from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg
“Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part of our job is to teach people this latter mentality.”
“Two could be complete with out the rest of the world”
“Two creative spirits in a relationship, I don't think that's the best way to go.”
“Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.”
“Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.”
Source: The Dream Songs: Poems
“Two damsel-flies are on the tall, flowering rush. These are the smallest of the British dragon-flies, and
they prey on gnats, July-browns, and other insects.
Beside the water-vole grow arrowhead plants, and to the left the great water-plantain. Both have three-
petalled flowers. Their roots are deep in mud under
the water, and they are growing in the shallows at the canal's edge together with the rushes. The canal passes under a bridge, and you can see how the tow-path also goes under it so that a horse that pulls a barge can pass thereon. On the towpath fishermen are sitting, and one of them has just caught a fish: not too big to be landed with a skilful jerk.”
Source: What To Look For In Summer
“Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.”
“Two days after Christmas I stood in the shower thinking about the Salem witch trials.”
Source: At the Edge of the Universe
“Two days after his twelfth birthday, a fortnight before his father was jailed for debt, Charles Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory. There, in a rat-infested room by the docks, he sat for twelve hours a day, labelling boot polish and learning the pain of abandonment. While he never spoke publicly of this ordeal, it would always be with him: in his social conscience and burning ambition, in the hordes of innocent children who languished and died in his fiction.
Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth. And the outcome can't be called. Some of us end up like Dickens, others like Jeffrey Dahmer. It's not a question of good or evil, Pete believes. Just the random brutality of the universe and our native ability to withstand it.”
Source: The Night Listener
“Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.”
Source: The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative
“Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“Two days after the German occupation, my mother called the pediatrician. "Would you come to see Gabi?" she requested. "He has been crying almost without stop since yesterday morning."
"I'll come, of course," the doctor replied, "but I should tell you: all of my Jewish babies are crying.”
Source: Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
“Two days after your death, in a dream you text me many times. I read the first of them. ME! And so are the living comforted.”
“Two days ago, birdsong filled the air, which smelled of promise and upcoming summer.
So much for that. Instead, she awoke to another blizzard.
Welcome to the Lowlands, where spring is merely a two-degree warmer extension of winter.”
Source: Shattered Reaction
“Two days ago, I was trying to decide how to ask him to marry me,” Zane whispered. “Tonight I’m trying to figure out if I can even love someone like him.”
Source: Touch & Geaux