T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.”
“Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.”
“Telling people that they are racist—on the basis of immutable characteristics, using incomprehensible definitions that they may not know or understand—then claiming they are “fragile” and in denial when they try to defend themselves, or accusing them of “gaslighting” when they don’t agree with you, is a punitive way of treating people, whatever their colour.”
Source: Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice
“Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.”
“Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.”
“Telling people what they want to hear may not help them in the long run, though it usually helps the tellers in the short run. This is common sense. But many of today's academics do not think and act like common people.”
Source: Stones of Contention
“Telling people what to do is showmanship.
Showing people how to do it is leadership.”
“Telling people what you want, speaking desire, and I could hear the air quotes in her voice, the ones she used when she slipped into grad-school vernacular. It's like telling people how to hurt you, handing them instructions.”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story”
“Telling rape jokes or laughing at women being brutalised has become a sign of virility and a marker of masculine freedom. In this context, raping women becomes a status enhancing smashing of the feminising legal restraints imposed on male sexuality. The trending of rape jokes on the internet also gains cool currency precisely because the internet is seen as a feral outlaw social technology, anarchic carnival space where every kind of subversion is permitted and defended in the name of freedom of speech – for those men who have access to the playground, at least.”
Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.”
Source: White Cat
“Telling scary stories is something people have done for thousands of years, for most of us like being scared in that way. Since there isn't any danger, we think it is fun.”
Source: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”
“Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.”
“Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.”
“Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Telling someone like my mother that Hell is a real, physical place, somewhere you can travel to and from, would be like spray-painting the statue of Jesus hanging over the pulpit during mass. Better off telling her the Pope is gay.”
Source: No Good Deed
“Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.”
“Telling someone they're wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what's right.”
“Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get herself or himself to the point of being able to put in the upsetting stuff.”
“Telling someone to "be safe" probably isn't going to keep them any safer.
But it does let them know you care.”
“Telling someone who’s crying not to cry
is the same as telling someone who’s falling not to fall.”
“Telling someone with addiction to "JUST QUIT" is akin to telling someone on fire to "STOP BURNNING”
Source: Navigating Recovery: 12-Steps Simplified: A No Bullshit Guide to 12-Step Success and Thriving in Recovery
“Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer”
“Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.”
Source: The Middle of Everywhere
“Telling stories on behalf of brands is what I've done all my life.”
“Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must.”
“Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we’ll talk about it.”
Source: Collected Stories
“Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.”
“Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.”
“Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.”
“Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Telling the story is not nearly as important as living the story. Indeed, your vagabonding experience need not be some quaint sand castle that washes away when you return home. If travel truly is the journey and not the destination, if travel really is an attitude of awareness and openness to new things, then any moment can be considered travel.”
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
“Telling the story of an important, sympathetic public figure is often difficult for the biographer at the inevitable turning point: the ampersand between rise and fall. The greatest successes are in the pages at the left. The pages on the right may be strewn with mishaps, unfinished projects, marital problems, sadness, illness, and end notes. Even when those pages also offer modest joys and major triumphs, as they did for Debussy, the reader knows how the story ends.”
Source: Afternoon of a Faun: How Debussy Created a New Music for the Modern World
“Telling the story with only a few shots, I love that style. It makes you feel like you're part of the action, part of the story. It reminds me of the theater, where one act is basically like one long shot. It almost makes you forget that you're seeing a movie.”
“Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.”
Source: Ethics
“telling the truth about children's lives is radical.”
“Telling the truth about things turns you into a pariah with people that work in those fields!”
“Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage.”
“Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.”
“Telling the truth can be a dirty job.”
Source: Casa Rossa
“Telling the truth can end something, but it can be the beginning of something too.”
“Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.”
“Telling the truth is absolutely important.”
“Telling the truth is always revolutionary”
“Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.”
“Telling the truth is my concern. Even if I have to go to hell after that, it doesn't matter. What matters is satisfying my conscience and knowing that I have done well.”
“Telling the truth is not easy, and false accusations can be made with great ease.”
Source: God's War on Terror: Islam, Prophecy and the Bible
“Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.”
“Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.”