T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Two sad eyes and one skanky smile, I practically pulse with the promise of promiscuity. I'm easy to catch, but too slippery to hold onto. Men love a challenge if the prize is guaranteed. I know how to start a fight while deepthroating a white flag.”
“Two scoops of crazy with a side of coo coo ca choo”
“Two Seasons, it is said, exist-
The Summer of the Just,
And this of Ours, diversified
With Prospect, and with Frost-
May not our Second with its First
So infinite compare
That We but recollect the one
The other to prefer?”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Two seconds are a thousand years.”
Source: Kertész on Kertész: a self-portrait
“Two seconds later, the sound of an alarm filled my ears.
''What did you do?'' I said over the noise as he backed up towards the bathroom door.
''The girl who gave you the note?''
''Yes...''
''I caught her staring at my lighter.''
I blinked. ''You gave a child, in a psych ward , a lighter?''
His eyes crinkled at the corners. ''She seemed trustworthy.''
''You're sick,'' I said, but smiled.
''Hey, nobody's perfect. '' Noah smiled back.”
Source: The Evolution of Mara Dyer
“Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.”
“Two-sentence horror story: I woke up in a country founded on the genocide of native peoples and the enslavement of imported ones. I could not find my way back to sleep.”
“Two sentences story
Someone shouted angrily; go to the hell
I asked politely; tell me the way”
“Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.”
“Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)”
“Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?”
Source: Ordinary people
“Two shows at once is crazy, but I love it.”
“Two sides of every right-triangle form parallel sides when mapped onto an elliptical plane. In such a geometry, all parallel lines cross.
- Excerpt from The Three-Sided Path of Pythagoras”
“Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?”
Source: Ender's Game
“Two sides to the compass of life; ethics, the external rules, and morals, the internal values.”
Source: Rep By Rep
“Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.”
“Two silhouettes blocked out the hard sun. The shapes came into focus as my vision adjusted to the light. One of them revealed itself to be a longboard. The other, the smoking-hot, dripping-wet guy who’d surfed it.”
Source: Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success
“Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.”
“Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there is a choice, the milder drink is always the better-not merely the safer but the better. The second is that no really enlightened drinker ever takes a drink at a time when he has any work to do. There is, of course, more to it than this; but these are sufficient for the beginner, and even the virtuoso never outgrows them.”
“Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.”
“Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.”
“Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.”
“Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.”
Source: Alarm to the Unconverted
“Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.”
“Two souls battered by oceans and scorched by time had landed here. A poet and a singer. On the deck, with a typewriter and a guitar, they began the journey of finding their voice.”
Source: Beyond Passion and Dreams: Two Souls. One Fire. No Survivors.
“Two souls beneath one sky,
One sentence trailing another,
There once was a spark, shining underneath—
Until time passed, and we became familiar strangers.”
Source: This Is Everything I Meant: A collections of words for the highs, the lows and everything that shapes us in between.
“Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.”
“Two souls in harmony create a symphony that echoes through eternity.”
Source: Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements
“Two souls, though hand in hand, unseen and unheard,
Just silent echoes, not even a whispered word.
Is it better to fade in the shadows' embrace,
Than face love's neglect in a sunlit space?”
“two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.”
Source: Faust
“Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.”
“Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.”
“Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering."”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“Two spacemen touching in anti-gravity is like a kiss. But then, there is nothing like a kiss. A kiss is a rare bird. The first sip of champagne. The fleeting glimpse of a shooting star. The kiss is uniquely human. We exchange bodily fluids with a kiss. A great kiss is like eating melon on a picnic. Like diving into a warm sea. A French kiss is a battle of tongues where everyone wins.”
Source: Being a Girl
“Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“two spears have glided,
and our souls collided
in mine, you confided
and my blackened mind
was enlightened”
Source: Sapling: The Beginner's Guide to the Art of Modern Poetry
“Two species on this planet had been bonded for many thousands of years. Maybe more than a hundred thousand. Dogs and people.
Dogs had been at the side of human beings for millennia before horses or cats.
They had hunted together when hunting had been essential for survival.
They had protected each other from all threats in a primitive world where nature was even crueler than it was now.
Of all the creatures on Earth, only people and dogs engaged joyfully in play all the days of their lives.
In the relationship between humanity and dogs, some mutual destiny existed that had not yet been fulfilled.”
Source: Devoted
“Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.”
“Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.”
“Two steps behind her, I say her name. "Skye.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“Two steps forward and one step back is still progress, binding us to stronger stuff. People can tell you all day long that you’re strong. What’s more helpful to hear is, use your strength.
That’s the step forward, stabilized.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“Two steps forward...one step back...I've always hated that old cliche too...I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then.”
Source: A Note in the Margin
“Two strategic reasons for organisational empathy:
-To gain greater employee engagement
-To enhance the customer experience”
“Two students severely injured, you yourself covered in blood, a Reaper on the premises, a Fenrir wolf running around loose somewhere, and extensive property damage to the resort. Well?" Nickamedes snapped. "What do you have to say for yourself, Gwendolyn?" I thought for a second, then grinned at him. "I followed your directions exactly. I never set one foot outside the hotel.”
Source: Kiss of Frost
“Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.”
“Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away”
Source: A Further Range
“Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.”
Source: A Further Range
“Two sure ways to fail- Think and never do or do and never think.”
“Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Two teams ran into each other at the local charity hospital in Austin. Both had the same idea to visit the maternity ward to support a new mother who was giving birth to a baby that day. The nurses at the hospital told both teams that there were two single mothers who had given birth that day. Both mothers were certain to need the money. One team gave a card and a crisp hundred-dollar bill. The other team purchased a hundred-dollar savings bond and wrote a card stating: "Because your baby is born on a day that will always be linked to a day of tragedy, we'd like you to have something positive you may share with the child in future years.”
Source: Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11