T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.”
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“The bold adventurer succeeds the best.”
Source: Ovid
“The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“The bold are helpless without cleverness.”
Source: Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women
“The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.”
“The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.”
“The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.”
Source: Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)
“The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.”
“The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.”
“The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.”
Source: Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves
“the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“The boldest little girl places her fists on her hips and sneers up at me. "You're too big to be a ballerina."
My arms cross over my chest. "Yeah? Well you're too small to ride the really fun roller coasters."
She sticks her tongue out at me.
I stick mine out right back.”
Source: It's a Love/Skate Relationship
“The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.”
“The boldest thing I ever did was turn to face my fear.
The boldest move I ever made was mimicking its sneer.
The boldest word I ever breathed while standing toe to toe,
Was formed by trembling lips that dared to snarl 'I said no!'”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.”
Source: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
“The boldness of endurance is the underline to almost every success.”
“The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.”
Source: Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson and the rights of man
“The Bolivarian revolution has no future and it has shown a lack of results.”
“The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.”
“The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.”
“The Bolshevik leaders perched atop the Mausoleum were no easier to tell apart than chess pawns. But Florence too was certain that she could recognise the twinkling eyes of Joseph Stalin, which looked down at her each workday from the oil painting above Timofeyev’s desk”
“The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.”
“The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.”
“The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.”
“The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.”
“The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.”
“The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.”
“The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.”
“The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?”
“The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too far above your heads, not too many miles) flashes. In other words, the flash in Australia, the ionosphere flashes. People get a secondary kickback from the ionosphere just as though they were standing next to the bomb, don't you see?”
“The bomb lives only as it is falling.”
“The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.”
Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation
“The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.”
“The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“The bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there’s no point in any euphemism about it. What they abominate about ‘the west,’ to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don’t like and can’t defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.”
Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
“The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that’s been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men. Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan and others take to the air every day with basically the same format: Detail a problem, blame the government or a group and invite invective from like-minded people. Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which their attitudes may embolden or encourage some extremists has clearly become an issue.”
“The bombing started up again, with explosions all around us, in broad daylight, but no one in the restaurant even flinched. Iraqis seemed numb after a quarter century under Saddam’s whip-hand rule. It was heartbreaking to see what a harsh dictatorship can do to the human soul. In less than a week, I had grown almost inured to explosions and fires.”
Source: And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
“The bombing was new but the amorphous rage that sought a target was not. Sailor could feel it constantly vibrating beneath everything, like an approaching train that sets the rails humming. Soon it would come for them too.”
Source: The Island of Last Things
“The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the drift towards more and more of them, we will live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud for the rest of our lives - and millions may die there.”
“The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.”
Source: From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
“The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.”
“The bombs were coming-and so was I.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“The Bombyx mori caterpillar," her brother supplied, thinking of snack time at the Shaolin Temple. "It tastes like chicken.”
Source: The Emperor's Code
“The Bon was carrying a fruit basket with a card that read Get Well Soon, Aiden! on it in glitter. Nicholas hadn’t known Aiden was under the weather. He hoped he felt better soon. Aiden wasn’t Nicholas’s favorite person or anything, but he was one of Nicholas’s teammates. That was more important than anything else.”
Source: Striking Distance
“The Bonaccorso brothers are serious muscle, though if they were any dumber they’d be dumber than rocks.”
Source: Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss
“The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.”
“The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.”
“The bond between food and me is like other relationships in my life: complicated, evolving, demanding, and in need of constant work. But together we’ve come so far, moving from my childhood obligation to clean my plate, to a mindless need to fill up, to a truly nourishing and pleasurable exchange. That’s the real reward.”
“The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.”