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, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.”
“The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“The fact is, yes, statistically, African Americans and Latinos are getting hit harder, but it`s something that we can have real solidarity across racial lines on, to raise the minimum wage, to lower the cost of going to college, to make sure there`s real consumer protection.”
“The fact is, you can say you love God and sing that you trust God and put him first, but your checkbook is where you can show just how much God's grace means to you.”
“The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.”
Source: Love, Sex, and Happily Ever After
“The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.”
Source: Half Broke Horses
“The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.”
“The fact is...I'm in love with you, and I have been for some time.”
Source: Tiger's Quest: Tiger Saga
“The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.”
“The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.”
“The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.”
“The fact Jeff Teague has never been an All-Star is puzzling to me because he's certainly an All-Star-caliber player.”
“The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine.”
“The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.”
“The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.”
“The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.”
“The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?”
“The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.”
“The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.”
Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
“The fact of having this very new context, this unheard-of way of working, for me was very pleasant. I didn't feel that I was working, that I had any kind of burden to wear, to carry. I really was very happy and very lighthearted during the whole process of making the film [Certified Copy], of shooting it.”
“The fact of it is nothing to do with seeing it happen—it’s not gasps and blood and falling about—that isn’t what makes it death. It’s just a man failing to reappear, that’s all—now you see him, now you don’t, that’s the only thing that’s real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back—an exist, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.”
“The fact of life is that the appreciation of true beauty cannot start without total renunciation.
[...] But to live beautifully, one needs an unfettered mind, a mind that is not clogged up with all kinds of attachments, opinions, or fossilized ways of looking at things. There is no need to get rid of anything as long as we can sever our attachments to it.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“The fact of life is that you’re the only constant of your life and all those who enter into it through its revolving door are its uncertain variables.”
Source: Glaring Shadow - A Stream of Consciousness Novel
“The ‘fact’ of my actions frequently collide with the ‘fiction’ of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?”
“The fact of Native existence is that we live modern lives informed by traditional values and contemporary realities and that we wish to live those lives in our terms.”
Source: The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
“The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.”
Source: Modern Painters: (pt.3) Of ideas of beauty
“The fact of our salvation being not something, but Someone, produces
quietness of spirit and an unshakable confidence.”
Source: All the Doctrines of the Bible
“The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.”
“The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.”
“The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.”
“The fact of resurrection is not extraordinary; it is in accord with what we who believe at all believe to be the uniform law of life--that death does not touch it. The witnesses to the resurrection of Christ were unprejudiced, unexpectant, incredulous, and their honesty is not doubted even by skeptical criticism.”
“The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.”
Source: In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.”
“The fact of the attempted suicide by Augusto Martinez was explained in a concise and exact form by our government in a communique. There is absolutely nothing else to add.”
“The fact of the existence of two theories [causal and acausal] that contradict each other in Jung ... corresponds psychologically to the vascillation between 3 and 4.”
“The fact of the matter is actions speak louder than words.”
“The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema.”
“The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema. There's always been fame, there's always been the caveman who's prettier or killed a bigger lion, or somebody started a story about a guy.”
“The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it's a few readers that I get or a lot of readers, which I was lucky enough to get with 'Olive.' I feel responsible to them, to deliver something as truthful and straight as I can.”
“The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.”
“The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.”
“The fact of the matter is that Buddhism has changed a lot. When St. Francis of Xavier arrived in Japan, he wrote back to the Vatican and made a joke. "It is unfortunate," he said, "that the Lutherans were here before me." By this he meant that Pure Land Buddhism was so much like Lutheranism.”
“The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment”
“The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.”
“The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.”
“The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.”
“The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.”
Source: Fire from Within