T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by servitude and yet always willing to accept the slipping on of the harness. There are limits to every domain, and laws to govern every organized power. But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the non-existent horizon, and her empire is an intangible one, for her domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.”
“The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.”
“The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win.”
“The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors”
“The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.”
“The cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film.”
“The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights.”
Source: Road Novels 1957-1960
“The cowboy’s face turned a bright shade of red. Whether it was from the booze or not, Clay couldn’t tell. He puffed out his chest, like a game bird ready to warn off a rival. “Now, I can tell you ain’t from around here and I don’t know how it’s done with your lot.
Otherwise, you’d have known who you were speaking to. In Fairpoint, the polite thing to do is accept a man’s offer when he goes out of his way to buy you a drink. It sounds like you’re saying you’re too good for us, old timer. I reckon the way you were staring makes me think you’ve got a problem.”
The other men took that as their cue to edge closer. If he wanted to, Clay could’ve tried to defuse the situation. The cowboy’s arrogance stirred a primal urge within him, a need for violence made sharper by the alcohol in his system.
“I’m speaking to a nobody in some godsforsaken town in the ass end of the world. There’s nothing good about me, boy. So, do yourself a favour and walk away. Or you and the rest of them peckerwoods will be picking your teeth up off the floor.”
Source: At the Dead of Dusk
“The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.”
“The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.”
“The cowslip is a country wench.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes
“The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.”
“The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.”
“The coyest maids make the fondest wives.”
Source: Clarissa
“The coyote was not a coyote. Or, maybe it was a coyote. Sam still didn't know what the difference was. In any case, it was a young, not much older than a puppy. It had the shaggy look of a coyote, but the muscular build of a pit bull. Its back leg was bleeding, and Sam worried he might have grazed it with the car. The coyote/dog looked scared. "If I pick you up," Sam said gently, "will you bite me?"
The coyote/dog looked at him blankly, terrified. It was shivering. Sam took off his plaid shirt, and he scooped the little dog into his arms, and he put it into the back seat of his car. They drove to an emergency veterinary clinic.
The dog had broken its leg. She needed stitches and would have to be in a cast for a couple of weeks, but she was strong, and she would recover.
When Sam asked the vet whether the dog might be a coyote, she rolled her eyes. She was just a dog, a mutt yes, but likely some combination of German shepherd, Shiba Inu, and greyhound. You could tell by the elbows, she said. Coyote elbows were higher than dog elbows. She brought up a graphic on her computer: a coyote, next to a wolf, next to a domesticated dog. See, she said, isn't it obvious?”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“The coyotes made too much noise last night and kept me awake. Please eradicate these annoying animals.”
“The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church”
“The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong”
Source: Playthings and Parodies
“The cozy relationship that Boeing has with the FAA and NTSB is potentially dangerous for the traveling public.”
“The CPAP sleep apnea machine would trigger insomnia during nighttime treatment.”
“The CPEC is as important to China as it is to Pakistan and we will continue to work day and night to bring it to more fruition”
“The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow!”
“The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238”
“The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.”
“The crack that was Yark's mouth elongated, not a smile so much as a forcing apart of seams that went with the blunt question. To force Quoyle's seams apart. And other forced seams implicit.”
Source: The Shipping News
“The cracked mind of the schizophrenic may let in light which does not enter intact minds of many sane people whose minds are closed.”
“the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“The crackling sounds of an old and tired bridge can best be understood by an old and tired person! Those who have carried the burden of life for so long are the ones who understand each other best!”
“The cracks grew over him like vines, faster and faster. At first he bucked, whinnying metallic screeches. Then he gradually stilled, looking up at me with frightened glass eyes.
He was growing.
New, molten glass leeched out between his fissures, cooled and hardened only to crack again and make room for more liquid glass. The gears inside him moaned and creaked, and metal filings gathered at the base of his transparent stomach, only to fly up again and form more joints and chains and gears. Black smoke poured from his nostrils.
Soon he was the size of a large dog, then a man, and still he grew and grew until he towered over my bed, as big as any plow horse I’d ever seen. Glass dripped down his flanks like sweat, a few rivulets still glowing with molten heat.”
Source: Mechanica
“The cracks in diplomacy are like fault lines - when they give way, it's seismic!”
“The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.”
Source: More Than It Hurts You
“The cracks in your heart are there so the light can shine through.”
Source: When You Were Mine
“The cradle of JOY lies in the bossom of hope that someday, we’d ride on the wings of the victories of many a battle fought and won .
Try this- ‘Be strong and courageous..... you’d overcome as long as the sun rises at dawn and sets at dusk.”
“The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.”
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.”
Source: Speak, Memory
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
“The CRAFT approach, developed by Bob Meyers at U of New Mexico, is one set of important tools that DO work, and it feels great to see families using these strategies and getting results, feeling hopeful again, feeling empowered, getting support, learning to trust themselves again, getting their lives and the lives of their children back.”
“The craft of acting dismantles the realms of private personal space and shows human nature for what it truly is; simple and fragile”
“The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.”
“The craft of photography is the key to good images.”
“The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character.”
“The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.”
“The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.”
“The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.”
“The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.”
Source: Conversations with John Steinbeck
“The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.”
Source: Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
“The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.”
“The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.”
“The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly fascinating about flying into an uncharted tunnel at a reckless speed with only a kleptomaniac dwarf's word for what lay at the other end.”
Source: Artemis Fowl: