T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The days of passengers sitting still during plane hijackings ended with 9/11. Before then, the worst that would have happened was that you'd probably spend a few days on a runway in a banana republic while the hijackers made their demands. On September 11th, 2001, it was just fireballs of instant death as the planes got deliberately crashed by the terrorists. From that point on, passivity was never an option again.”
“The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.”
Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats
“The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet, larger than any American television series. People don't watch television in the same context as before. Nowadays they watch their television on the Internet at their convenience. That's the whole wave, and it's now - not the future.”
“The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.”
Source: Management
“The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.”
“The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.”
Source: Arcadia
“The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.”
“The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by a single revolution of our globe, but PERIODS of a much longer extent.”
Source: Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology
“The days of the pushy salesmen and self-serving narcissists are over. That type of behavior quickly alienates and pushes people away because it offends and can’t be trusted.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.”
“The days of waiting for an outer authority to sanction your life path are over. Follow what matters to you most.”
Source: We Need You: A Call to an Imaginal Reality
“The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over.”
“The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before”
“The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”
“The days on earth are numbered; so life is too short to wake up in the morning with penitence. So, cherish the people who treat you right and ignore the ones who do not.”
“The days on the calendar are numbered just as the days in my life are.”
“The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.”
“The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.”
“The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression. In hope’s loss, however, is the greatest despair.”
Source: A Short Stay in Hell
“The days passed, the weeks. But everything seemed to have fused, gone into a conglomerated mass. He could not tell one day from another, hardly one place from another. Nothing was distinct or distinguishable. Often he lost himself for an hour at a time, could not remember what he had done.”
“The days passed, as they do, and life went on.”
“The days rolled by in the camp—they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they never moved by a second.”
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
“The days start to be charged not because tomorrow you're leaving, but because in three weeks you're leaving. The future impinges. So you start to think about the frame.”
“The days take forever, but they just fly by. It's so weird.”
“The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.”
“The days that change your life usually begin like any other day.”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid.”
Source: Beyond the Gender Binary
“The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.”
“The days that make us happy make us wise”
Source: John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917
“The days that you record by yourself, you feel like a crazy person because you're saying the same line, 10 different ways, or they ask you for 10 different grunting sounds and you just feel like such a schmuck. It's crazy! When there's other people there, it tethers you to something, in a nice way.”
“The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, spring nor fall. A thermal haze of inexpressible sweetness, though bearing tiny bits of grit or mica, had eased into the Valley from the industrial region to the north and there were nights when the sun set at the western horizon as if it were sinking through a porous red mass, and there were days when a hard-glaring moon like bone remained fixed in a single position, prominent in the sky. ("Family")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.”
“The days were like grown-up people, the mornings always young.”
“The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.”
“The days were never going to be that easy again. Life only seemed to get more complicated and more stressful. Part of me would have given anything to go back and relive those days, but the other part of me wanted nothing to do with any of it.”
Source: The Ten Year Reunion
“The days were shorter, meek and barren. It rained constantly, as if to signal the grave beginnings of a ritual, and we, as the last members of the tribe, did not know how to separate the profane from the sacred.”
Source: The Rider on the Bridge
“The days were sinking into the summery sunshine, flowery blossom, twinkling of colorful butterflies, buzzing bees, and happy singing of birds.”
Source: Gods’ Food
“The days were sinking into the summery sunshine, flowery blossom, twinkling of colorful butterflies, buzzing bees, and happy singing of birds; while the nights kept charming with warm winds under the clear skies full of stars, mysteriously shining from incomprehensible spaces of the boundless Universe.”
Source: The Adventures of Emily Smyth and Billy Fifer
“The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.”
“The days were sweet and full of love. But at night, the girls sat in the moonlight on the bench beneath Ned’s tree, and although I couldn’t see anything but their silhouettes, I knew my girls were not smiling. But I did not know they were conspiring.”
Source: Beneath the Valley Oak
“The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
Source: The Uncommon Reader
“The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.”
“The days when he had taken insults passively had passed, as had the days when he would melt in tears. He had never understood what made the others do it, only that he was somehow apart from them, somehow differ- ent, and that he would never fit in. From the time Serena had first held him after it happened, when he
was only five, his mother had counseled patience. "Ignore them," she said. "Deny them the satisfaction of seeing you rise in anger." She too had suffered this way. "Pay no attention to them. They are only jealous of your noble birth." She had tried to soften their in- sults. "When they call you half-breed you must remem- ber what it really means, that you are the best of two worlds, the best of the French and the best of the Tuareg."
Her advice felt warm and wise while he was on her lap, but evaporated quickly in the schoolyard. His patience only drove his tormentors to greater creativity in their taunts, and then they accused him of cowardice, of being a sissy. If he cried it drove them to new heights of viciousness.
And then one day when Moussa was eight Henri had seen his bruised cheek and asked about it, and Moussa had poured out his sorrow and his dilemma.
"Your mother is right in her way," Henri agreed after listening, "but just now I think they need a good thrashing. You need to teach them a lesson. I wish it weren't so, but they respect only strength." After that Moussa tried hard not to forget his mother's advice, but he found that fists often worked better. At first he lost most of the fights, but a bloody nose from fighting back felt better to him than a bloody nose from doing nothing. And with practice, along with the instruction he received from his father and Gascon, he got better. Before long the students learned to taunt him at their own peril, for even if they might finally beat him, they would pay a heavy price.”
Source: Empires of Sand by David Ball
“The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.”
“The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.”
“The days when you cannot feel your strength, you have to remind yourself of the many times you pulled through, no matter the odds, and know, that you will this time as well.”
“The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.”
“The days, whether lapsing or lingering, were a stiff reality; the suppression of anxiety was a thin idea; the taste of life itself was the taste of suspense.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“The days which bracketed hurricanes were painful in their clarity, sharp edge clouds, blue sky hard as a cop's eyes.”
Source: How Long 'til Black Future Month?
“The days will always be brighter because he existed. The nights will always be darker because he's gone.”
Source: God-Shaped Hole: A Novel