T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.”
“The fact is, out of all the possible reasons for going bankrupt, only three account for nearly 90 percent of bankruptcy: a job loss, a medical problem, or a divorce. And the fact is that those are exactly the kind of calamities that the bankruptcy courts were designed to help people through.”
“The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.”
Source: The Ivory Dagger
“The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.”
“The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.”
“The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't need to, because we are the clay and He is the Potter. We need to stop trying to domesticate God or confine Him to tidy categories and compartments that reflect our human sentiments rather than His inexplicable ways.”
Source: Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up
“The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.”
“The fact is, some of the most respected scientific bodies in the world, including Codex Alimentarius (jointly run by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations), the American Medical Association, the British Medical Association, and the American Public Health Association, have stated that more research needs to be done on GMOs through premarket safety assessments before we can truthfully determine their safety.”
“The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite.”
Source: Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)
“The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.”
“The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.”
“the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.”
Source: The Complete Works of L.E. Landon
“The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”
Source: The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry
“The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.”
Source: Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo
“The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.”
“The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.”
Source: I Try to Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book
“The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.”
“The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.”
“The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly. And in my case, they're barely speaking.”
Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland
“The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.”
“The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community.”
“The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.”
Source: Dr. Lavendar's People
“The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.”
Source: The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)
“The fact is, the truth will come out. The truth will come out when it's time.”
“The fact is, there are a couple of years he may not have paid any taxes. Maybe he's concerned about that. But if it's going to come out, he needs to get it out now so he has a couple of months to explain it.”
“The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.”
“The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.”
“The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.”
“The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.”
“The fact is, there is only one body ideal in fashion, and most likely, you don't have it.”
Source: The Truth About Style Deluxe
“The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty”
“The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.”
Source: The Summer Guest
“The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."”
“The fact is, these are actors playing parts, and maybe it's not such a bad thing that people be reminded of that. Both of these actors gave heart and soul to the Twilight movies, not only during shooting, but also by navigating so graciously the whole life-in-a-fishbowl aspect of the phenomenon. Above all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it's time that some of that respect be returned to them.”
“The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We like what the media has created of the mob bosses in movies and TV and books, because it's something the average person never comes into contact with, it's almost as outwardly outlandish as a sexy vampire, and so we can romanticize it, it's non-threatening.”
“The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.”
“The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.”
Source: The Secret of Success in the Christian Life
“The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.”
“The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know”
“The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.”
“The fact is, we need help, and we need each other.”
“The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.”
Source: The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit
“The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.”
Source: Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.”
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!”
“The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.”
Source: Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian
“The fact is, when you look at the best teams—like the ones that existed at Toyota or 3M when Takeuchi or Nonaka wrote their paper, or the ones at Google or Salesforce.com or Amazon today—there isn’t this separation of roles.”
“The fact is, when you talk to people, they know that something weird is going on, particularly people who are connected to the land or the water. They can see it. What perhaps is not so evident to them, unfortunately, is what the solution is. But whether they call it climate change or not, it doesn't matter. The point is, they can see there's something fundamentally weird going on here.”