T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.”
“The grand master of the ceremonies then stated that the strangers were of a most villainous appearance, and could not possibly be worse dressed. But the king answered that it was wrong to judge the heart by the countenance, and the gown did not make the parson.”
Source: The Nutcracker
“The Grand Mistake in Education - To think that what's right for you is right for everyone. IT AIN'T. The Fly in this Ointment!http://youtu.be/6HpXUaQGY8I via @youtube”
Source: Death of a Nightingale
“The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!”
Source: The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, the Text Carefully Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts. With a Commentary and Critical Notes Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings
“The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.”
“The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day”
“The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it.”
“The grand paradox of our society is this:
we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.”
“The grand philosopher Ancient Leaf once expounded that a man who kills another out of passion or greed is condemned as a murderer, and one who kills ten people is reviled as a maniac, but one who causes the death of hundreds of thousands in pursuit of personal glory is often revered as a great personage.”
Source: New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
“The grand picture of life lies in the little moments.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“The grand picture of life lies in the little moments, which the intellectual never finds, nor the superstitious. Grand picture of life dawns upon the life lived grand, It unfolds on its own once you're no more a tribal dunce.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.”
Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade
“The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and wherethese principles are concerned, the right or wrong of any action appears the same to the uncultivated as to the enlightened mind.”
Source: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
“The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals.”
“The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people's choice award where people could vote online.”
“The grand purpose of the classically built environment, ultimately, is to propel us out of our finite selves and into the limitlessness of the divine cosmos, to shatter our pretenses and present to us a whole new way of thinking about the meaning of life itself.”
Source: Reclaiming Classical Design: Reflections on the Harmonious and Beautiful Building
“The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?”
“The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy, according to the testimony of the philosophers who rose in that age. A belief in the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers. We might almost think they were 'Mormons.'”
“The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.”
Source: Works
“The grand scale and immersive nature of The IMAX Experience gives Spiderwick a brand new level of excitement. In IMAX theatres, fans will be drawn into the movie even further and feel as if they are actually part of the story.”
“The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.”
“The grand show is eternal
It is always sunrise somewhere”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.”
“The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.”
“The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.”
“The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.”
“The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.”
“The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition
“The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.”
“The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.”
Source: The changing world: an editor's outlook
“The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.”
“The grander the vision the greater the price tag.”
“The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have, is to so live, and so improve himself in heart and brain, as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man. That is my idea. There is no success in life without love and marriage. You had better be the emperor of one loving and tender heart, and she the empress of yours, than to be king of the world. The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar, his life has been a success.”
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
“The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.”
“The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.”
Source: Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1
“The grandest form of delusion is misconstruing the obvious. Persons with an open, inquisitive, and intuitive mind can detect hidden clues that aggressive, narrow-minded, and impatient rationalist fail to perceive.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The grandest goal is to declare thy genius.”
“The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.”
Source: U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being”
“The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.”
“The grandest virtue seems deficient.”
“The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.”
“The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.”
“the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things”
“The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.”
“The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.”
“Awesome.”
“Maybe, but it’s code’s all it is.”
Source: Bleeding Edge
“The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.”
“The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.”