T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?”
“The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.”
“The days are very alike here, the hours of darkness long and bleak, and I am a stranger to myself.”
Source: Silent on the Moor
“The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river. Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones.”
Source: Still Another Day
“The days became for Christina endless preparation. Ceaseless winds tore through her massing battle ranks, the grey cold sun above marking the timeless date. With skies of blue and cloud overhead, driving, uncompromising time stood still, lingering, as if giving Christina precious eons to perfect her shaving straight razor cuts of mind and sword. She worked alone now, forging the essence of herself in the policies and ways of hammer and anvil, pounding away with the classic, living Japanese blade. Her deft hands spun dervishly, wroughting out the iron of her will, fashioning a blade-mind remade unto her. --Brickley, The Lady and the Samurai”
“The days before, even the score of what you are filled in with today. What colour are you, the tangled hues of years gone by that affected you?”
Source: The Silent Partner And Other Stories Of Truth
“The days blur into one, and the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done.”
“The days can be long and the nights be scary
Questions may arise, and all can be awry
But realise, if you have hope everything can stay
If you believe, all will remain at bay
Now the day has gone, and the darkness yet unknown
I wish you good night, and the courage to stand on your own”
“The days carry the living along; the dead are left behind. It was disconcerting to discover how everything went on without Papa. The sun came up and went down, the roses bloomed, the birds sang, the stars wheeled overhead exactly as they had before”
Source: Mozart's Wife
“The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.”
Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The days come and go, the cars passing by. Nothing is permanent in a prostitute’s life. Surely, no gloryhole is forever.”
Source: Slut Vomit: An Anthology of Sex Work
“The days diminished. Light lasted just six hours, and it was a feeble light. Mabel organized her hours into patterns - wash, mend, cook, wash, mend, cook - and tried not to imagine floating beneath the ice like a yellow leaf.”
Source: The Snow Child
“The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.”
Source: A Kind of Loving: The Vic Brown Trilogy
“The days fly by. I can smell the weekend already. The repetition of days is so boring to observe.”
“The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked.”
Source: Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)
“The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines.”
“The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer,
The headstones thicken along the way;
And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger
For those who walk with us day by day.”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“The days had been no less brutal then, nor was the living easier or less dangerous, but the land had had a great air of mystery about it and a purity which was now gone.”
Source: From Whence The Rivers Run
“The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.”
Source: The street of crocodiles and other stories
“The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.”
Source: Writings to Young Women on Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume Three: As Told By Her Family, Friends, and Neighbors
“The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.”
Source: Journal of an Ordinary Grief
“The days I spent, holding her hand, laughing at the stupidest little remarks, made me happy.
I held onto that clarity, that sense of being alive.
Our innocent love filled every split and rift that had been cut into my beating heart over the years.
She showed me what love was, why the stars shown through the darkness, even when darkness seemed to overcome.
And with that, I found a new home. Not in my house or the places I existed, but in two hands and a heartbeat.”
“The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.”
“The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.”
“The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.”
“The days of closed ethical systems are gone. The peoples of the world must live together, and the world is shrinking by the hour. Living together means that the multiple ethical systems and values around the earth must be synthesized into certain universals acceptable to the people of the world.”
Source: Reveille for Radicals
“The days of darkness weren't wasted years, i learnt how to walk with the stars.”
“The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.”
“The days of drinking to numb myself were over. I saw light. I saw happiness on the horizon. I saw Fern.”
Source: Wild in Minnesota
“The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It's not physical - it's all in the head.”
“The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.”
“The days of hair tonics have long since passed.”
“The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's a new world, where the viewer and fan wants to watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want to watch it.”
“The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.”
“The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.”
“The days of infinity are endless. Its hours cannot be counted or found on a clock. There is no north, south, east, or west. These are just concepts. Infinity is forever, everywhere all at once. And that's all there is.”
“The days of irresponsible artists are over. We will miss the brief moments of happiness they brought us. But at the same time, we will recognize that this ordeal has given us the possibility of being truthful, and we will accept that challenge.”
Source: Create Dangerously
“The days of kings and lords first began to lose their brightness when philosophers and scientists realized that the ancient Greeks, who had long been held up as the wisest men in the world, were sometimes wrong.”
Source: Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners
“The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States
“The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.”
“The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.”
“The days of mankind are nearly done. For years I have been seeing it. All we can do while we are here is live. All any human ever has been able to do is live. That is all I tried to do.”
Source: A Witch's Fate
“The days of misfortune are the wish of revenge, but human forgiveness is more sacred.”
“The days of mourning are over now. Wipe those tears from your eyes and speak healing to your wounded heart. Choose to declare victory no matter what.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.”
“The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.”
Source: Lolita
“The days of our lives are quickly forgotten. War days are vivid, protracted, indelible. We are as moths who singe our wings and still fly back into the flame.”
Source: We Shall Pass
“The days of our lives are quickly forgotten. War days are vivid, protracted, indelible. We are as moths who singe our wings and still fly back into the flame. The soldier exists in a private hell half deaf and half blinded by poisonous fumes.”
Source: We Shall Pass
“The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.”
“The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.”