T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.”
“The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.”
“The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed this country before.”
“The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.”
“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”
“The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself - In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable sdvice.”
“The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.”
Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets
“The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.”
“The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and, that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands.”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.”
“The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.”
“The genius of sin is that it renders men entirely catatonic to the fact that they’re entirely catatonic.”
“The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.”
“The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.”
“The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.”
Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
“The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.”
“The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)
“THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.”
Source: the new industrial state
“The 'genius' of the moment has the perk to spark a deflagration of ecstasy and a gust of inspiration and, in its aftermath, ease the turbulent underswell of conflicting hassles. ("Just for a moment" )”
“The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.”
“The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.”
Source: White Noise
“The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.”
“The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
“The genius of the tradition as it has developed in America is the unique combination of giving and voluntary service in behalf of independent organizations and institutions devoted to the public interest.”
“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
Source: The Americanness of Walt Whitman
“The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.”
Source: Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set
“The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure. In fact, that's why it is unlike any other book. You may be an expert in a given field. If you read a book in that field two or three times you've got it. But that's never true of the Bible. Read it over and over again, and you'll see things that you've never seen before.”
Source: Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible
“The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.”
“The Genius Pattern = Thy will be done with my talents with my circles of influence with the opportunities that are laid out in front of me to bless the world.”
“The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.”
“The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.”
Source: Sex & Character
“The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility. A person must make decisions himself and himself answer for them.”
“The genius' behind the new Rocky movie decided to call it Rocky Balboa so that we'll probably forget that it's number six. Or Rocky Balboa can't count past five.”
“The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.”
“The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
“The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the truth that there has not yet been in our world a religious epoch of creativity.”
“The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.”
Source: The Bet and Other Stories
“The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth.”
“The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure, of seeing the other. Of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's removed, then politics
can become genocidal.”
“The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.”
Source: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
“The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which landscapes are devastated and the populations that live there slowly starve or turn upon each other savagely because there isn't enough food or water to go around.”
“The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.”
“The genre [of hard-partying girls] seems to have gone out of style - instead of young women who drink too much, it's young women who don't eat enough.”
“The genre of '80s action movies, I think, changed really when The Matrix came out and Keanu Reeves was able to perform kung fu. Then you had Matt Damon in the Bourne films, doing a great job. So it's different now, they can train actors to do their own fights convincingly on screen, so those guys aren't needed anymore. But I think everything goes around in circles; people still do want to see the guys that can do stuff for real, that's why The Expendables is so popular. I think it will come back again.”
“The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.”
“The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.”
“The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.”
“The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.”
“The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.”