T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.”
“The cruelest walls are made of glass, Ma.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“The cruellest thing about love is that it leads us to deal with the parts of ourselves that we do not want to see, and, sometimes, this is what we do not really forgive the other.”
“The Cruellest things do not hide in the dark.”
Source: A Portable Shelter
“The cruels don't trust their surroundings, they try to destroy those who who are stronger than them.”
“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.”
“The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much as the malice intrinsic to the mental hospital system has been excused by the need to provide treatment.”
Source: Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
“The cruelty is the point”
Source: The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
“The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.”
Source: The Principles of Sociology
“The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.”
“The cruelty of it. The desecration, Margo thought with disgust. Mangling a perfect body because of an imperfect mind.”
Source: The End of Miracles
“The cruelty of it. The desecration, Margo thought with disgust. Mangling an imperfect body because of an imperfect mind.”
Source: The End of Miracles
“The cruelty of men had infected the land, and sea only swept in sharp waves to the shores.”
Source: Crocodile Chamber
“The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older ... It should be the other way around: Work out hard when you're a kid you should be able to coast when you get older. But unfortunately you have to do more to stay in the same position.”
“The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.”
“The cruelty they speak exposes the wound in them, not the worth in you.”
“The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!”
“The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.”
“The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for most
of us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival.”
Source: The Cruising Life: A Commonsense Guide for the Would-Be Voyager
“The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned and dripped, their leaves snatched by the wind were whirled in wild circles through the towers. The clouds mouldered as they lay coiled, or shifted themselves uneasily upon the stone skyfield, sending up wreathes that drifted through the turrets and swarmed up hidden walls.”
Source: Titus Groan
“The crumbling under the ‘cold corpse’
The deadness of ‘mortal separation’
The moaning wails of ‘mourning’
The push to ‘perform rituals’
The spectacle of ‘sorrow’
The goriness of ‘grief’
And
The ‘mercilessness’ of the ‘merciful’
Who knows … ‘what’ and ‘why’
Who would ever want to know
(Page 34)”
Source: A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration
“The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.”
“The crusade is never off my mind - the exercise I do, the food I eat, the thought I think - all this and how I can help make my profession better-respected. To me, this one thing - physical culture and nutrition - is the salvation of America.”
“The crusaders fought war, and they won leprosy . (Les croisés firent la guerre, et ils gagnèrent la lèpre)”
“The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.”
Source: The History of England, vol. 1~6, Completed: Revision of Great Book
“The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.”
Source: The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume
“The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.”
“The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.”
“The crushed flowers and
The scented letters
Hidden between the pages,
I hide them under the pillows,
I take them on a trip,
Sometimes, they lay in the cupboards
The broken flowers still glow,
The perfumed letters can
Give the peace to my soul.”
Source: The Forest of Feelings
“The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.”
“The crust of the Earth floats around its own axis, for the cosmos is not without magnetic directions.”
“The crust [of the earth] is very thin. Estimates of its thickness range from a minimum of about twenty to a maximum of about forty miles. The crust is made of comparatively rigid, crystalline rock, but it is fractured in many places, and does not have great strength. Immediately under the crust is a layer that is thought to be extremely weak, because it is, presumably, too hot to crystallize. Moreover, it is thought that pressure at that depth renders the rock extremely plastic, so that it will yield easily to pressures. The rock at that depth is supposed to have high viscosity; that is, it is fluid but very stiff, as tar may be. It is known that a viscous material will yield easily to a comparatively slight pressure exerted over a long period of time, even though it may act as a solid when subjected to a sudden pressure, such as an earthquake wave. If a gentle push is exerted horizontally on the earth's crust, to shove it in a given direction, and if the push is maintained steadily for a long time, it is highly probable that the crust willl be displaced over this plastic and viscous lower layer. The crust, in this case, will move as a single unit, the whole crust at the same time. This idea has nothing whatever to do with the much discussed theory of drifting continents, according to which the continents drifted separately, in different directions.
[...]
Let us visualize briefly the consequences of a displacement of the whole crustal shell of the earth. First, there will be the changes in latitude. Places on the earth's surface will change their distances from the equator. Some will be shifted nearer the equator, and others farther away. Points on opposite sides of the earth will move in opposite directions. For example, if New York should be moved 2,000 miles south, the Indian Ocean, diametrically opposite, would have to be shifted 2,000 miles north. [...] Naturally, climatic changes will be more or less proportionate to changes in latitude, and, because areas on opposite sides of the globe will be moving in opposite directions, some areas will be getting colder while others get hotter; some will be undergoing radical changes of climate, some mild changes of climate, and some no changes at all.
Along with the climatic changes, there will be many other consequences of a displacement of the crust. Because of the slight flattening of the earth, there will be stretching and compressional effects to crack and fold the crust, possibly contributing to the formation of mountain ranges. there will be changes in sea level, and many other consequences.”
Source: Earth's Shifting Crust: A Key To Some Basic Problems Of Earth Science
“The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.”
“The crux of Bible-Onlyism is that the Word became ink and dwelt among us, and we have only read about His glory.”
“The crux of military operations lies in the pretense of accommodating one's self to the designs of the enemy.”
Source: The Art of War
“The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.”
Source: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love So Much More
“The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe!”
“The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus.”
“The crux of the curious difficulty lies in the fact that our conscious views of what life ought to be seldom correspond to what life really is.”
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?”
Source: Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]
“The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking”
“The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable...There is no way I can see to stop this rise, even if we have gone to zero emissions.”
“The crux of the second noble truth is not what you want, but the very fact that you want.”
Source: Untangling Self: A Buddhist Investigation of Who We Really Are
“The crux of the worldview conflict... is the denial of God's right to be God, and the usurpation of that right by man. In a word, it is a life or death struggle over _sovereignty_. Who will be sovereign- man or God?
If God has lost the authority to be sovereign over reality, if He has lost the authority to provide objective law, and if He has lost the authority to reveal absolute truth, then in the eyes of men, He has lost the right to be God. He has been stripped of His "God-ness," or the very attributes which make Him God.
At the same time, man is never content to be godless. He must have a god. Somebody or something must provide that authority. Thus, modern man gladly assumes that position, and humanist man becomes his own ultimate authority... This is the Gettysburg of the worldview war of the 21st century.”
Source: Apostate
“The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.”
“The Cry Baby character is so, like, based off of myself that it just really is just from personal experience. And when I was younger I was called a cry baby and made fun of for being super emotional and taking things way to personal.”
“The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfilled. It is an offspring of that false and superficial radicalism that accepts premises and tries to evade conclusions. Upon the basis of the wages system the value of labouring power is settled like that of every other commodity; and as different kinds of labouring power have different values, or require different quantities of labour for their production, they must fetch different prices in the labour market. To clamour for equal or even equitable retribution on the basis of the wages system is the same as to clamour for freedom on the basis of the slavery system. What you think just or equitable is out of the question. The question is: What is necessary and unavoidable with a given system of production? After what has been said, it will be seen that the value of labouring power is determined by the value of the necessaries required to produce, develop, maintain, and perpetuate the labouring power.”
Source: Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
“The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom.”
“The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life.”
Source: Community and Growth