T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.”
“Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.”
“Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.”
“Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The plan to send me straight back to New Seasons won't work. There is no room at the inn for a leather Lia-skin plumped full of messy things. Not yet. The director promises Dr. Marrigan he'll have a bed for me next week. I'm stable enough to go home until then. They all say I'm stable.”
Source: Wintergirls
“Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.”
Source: Threshold
“Two days of wedded bliss and dead dragons. Any regrets yet?”
“Not a one.”
Source: Forever Together (Paranormal Mystery, Suspense and Drama, Epic Adventure)
“Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.”
“Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.”
“Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”
“Two death sentences? Really? I mean, you look very well, considering.”
Crane grinned at him. “One was in absentia. One wasn’t, and I spent three days in a condemned cell. I can’t recommend the experience.”
“And—did you say a smuggler?”
“That was what the death sentences were for.”
Source: The Magpie Lord
“Two deaths. One life.”
Source: Shanya's Saga
“Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher's England to Deng's China, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than ever in human history.”
“Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.”
“Two decades into living in sunny climates, my body was covered with black and brown pigmentation spots. I was clearly starting the process of turning into a black person.”
“Two decades of virtually uninterrupted fighting had made even the most dignified structures appear drunken, wounded, or lost. The entire city seemed to affirm the notion that warfare is a disease.”
Source: Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.”
Source: Old Home Town
“Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.”
Source: The Life of Luther
“Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.”
“Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.”
Source: Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems
“Two dog-owners met one day to walk their dogs together. One owner had grown up in a small family that valued health, safety, and orderly, disciplined behaviour. The dog of this owner received regular veterinary care, two meals a day of low-fat dog food, and was walked on a leash. The other owner had grown up in a large community that valued conviviality, sharing of resources and close contact with the natural world. This dog (the owner's third - the first two had been killed by cars) had burrs in its coat, was fed generously but sporadically, and had never worn a collar in its life. Each owner, judging quality of life from very different viewpoints, felt sorry for the other's dog.” (Fraser, Weary, et al., 1997)”
“Two dots on a graph can be identical, but they still have different coordinates.”
Source: Quantraz
“Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife. And Five Drink Mike... dances with wildlife.”
“Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.”
“Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.”
“Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Two dudes met. They fell in love. They lived. That's our story.”
Source: They Both Die at the End
“Two Dutch, two Americans, one German and one Australian. And yet, as the rocket began to quake beneath us, my mind focused on a man in Antarctica. I thought about Sam "Snowbow" Archambeau waiting for the September sunrise to reach the South Pole. I smiled recalling him getting a haircut in a lawn chair next to the frozen barbershop pole." -- Nikki in the upcoming novel, "Nikki White: Polar Extremes" (Nikki, #3)”
Source: Nikki White: Polar Extremes
“Two eggs do not an omelette make”
“Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction”
“Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.”
“Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.”
“Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants.”
Source: Of Cattle and Men
“Two enemies try to destroy each other so that only one of them remains. Two lovers also want to become one unit. This whole circus is happening because we are trying to 'create' oneness instead of trying to realize that we are already one.”
“Two entirely distinct state of consciousness were present which alternated very frequently and without warning and which became more and more differentiated in the course of the illness. In one of these states she recognized her normal surroundings; she was melancholy and anxious, but relatively normal. In the other state she hallucinated and was "naughty" —that is to say, she was abusive, used to throw the cushions at people, so far as the contractures at various times allowed, tore buttons off her bedclothes and linen with those of her fingers which she could move, and so on. At this stage of her illness if something had been moved in the room or someone had entered or left it (during her other state of consciousness) she would complain of having "lost" some time and would remark upon the gap in her train of conscious thoughts.”
Source: Studies in Hysteria
“Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.”
“Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.”
“Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.”
“Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.”
“Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
“Two examples illustrate the redundancy principle. First, when a virtual machine fails in a cloud-based system, an identical instance is started automatically. Second, a critically important system should have at least one secondary backup system that runs in parallel with the primary system to ensure a safe fallback. Leading up to the next principle, we note that the secondary system should differ from the primary system to avoid both failing for the same reasons.”
Source: Anti-fragile ICT Systems
“Two examples of true love are love between mother and child and love between Sachin and cricket.”
Source: 5 Feet 5 Inch Run Machine – Sachin Tendulkar
“Two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.”
Source: Pensées
“Two eyes will always make you a slave to someone else.
"I..I...captain!”
“Two faces of the same coin. And I am the metal in between.”
Source: Ender’s Game
“Two factors are crucial to live intelligently. One, understand that Life is a limited-period offer. Two, understand that Happiness is not a goal, it is not a destination…but that Happiness must be experienced in the here and now, with what is, doing what you love doing. So, keep it simple: don’t postpone your Happiness!!”
“Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.”
“Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.”
Source: Feininger on Photography
“Two fairies were sleeping peacefully on his bed. Dinnie was immediately depressed. He knew that he did not have enough money to see a therapist.”