T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.”
Source: Fight Club: A Novel
“The Gypsies are living poetry”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“The Gypsies favour hazardous and threatening freedom over serene and tranquil servitude any day of the week.”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“The Gypsy heart is full of wonder, their souls deep with dreams and their inspiration full of mystery.”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“The Gypsy Heart tour is a dream come true. Not only because of all the beautiful cities I will get to visit, but all of the beautiful people I will get to meet. Gypsy Heart is not just a tour for me, but a mission to spread love.”
“The gypsy in my soul is living on the road again, ... When I first started my career, I was on the road for about five or six years straight, not living anywhere. Thirty-three years later, I`ve come full circle.”
“The gyrfalcon Dan flew that day was a bird of the year who was just learning to hunt. When he brought her out, I shook my head at the size of her. She was massive; Dan had aptly named her Jabba the Hut. As with all falcons, female gyrfalcons are a third larger than the males. ... She thought that she was a person and treated Dan as her mate.This gave new meaning to the term "henpecked.”
Source: The Rites of Autumn
“The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.”
“The Haas is here! And you can't see me!”
“The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.”
“The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“The habit is, for a thoughtless and romantic youth of each sex to come together, to see each other for a few times and under circumstances full of delusion, and then to vow to each other eternal attachment. What is the consequence of this? In almost every instance they find themselves deceived. They are reduced to make the best of an irretrievable mistake... The institution of marriage is a system of fraud; and men who carefully mislead their judgements in the daily affair of their life, must always have a crippled judgement in every other concern... Add to this, that marriage is an affair of property, and the worst of all properties... So long as I seek to engross one woman to myself, and to prohibit my neighbour from proving his superior desert and reaping the fruits of it, I am guilty of the most odious of all monopolies.”
Source: Political Justice, 1793
“The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life”
Source: Xélucha and Others
“The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.”
Source: Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
“The habit of a virus is to live in the crowd, the habit of a crow is to show its crowd but the habit of a legend is to stay alone in the crowd”
“The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.”
Source: The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart
“The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.”
“The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.”
“The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.”
“The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”
“The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.”
“The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.”
“The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.”
“The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.”
Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern
“The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.”
“The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject.”
“The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.”
Source: Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen
“The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.”
“The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.”
“The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.”
Source: The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters
“The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.”
“The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.”
Source: Think Like a Champion: A Guide to Championship Performance for Student-Athletes
“The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.”
“The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.”
Source: The Education of Henry Adams
“the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.”
“The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.”
“The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.”
Source: Walt Whitman's workshop: A collection of unpublished manuscripts
“The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.”
Source: The Optimist Creed
“The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.”
“The habit of Gratitude honors God.”
Source: THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY
“The habit of hate is spreading like venom in a polarized world, pushing us to pick sides and label everything. We make someone wrong to feel right, truly believing our views are superior. We forget it is collective influences that have shaped our opinions.
But hate is hate, no matter whom you hate. I do not wish for that to fester in me and become one of my life accumulations and habits.”
Source: Poetry Dust: In the Middle of My Before and After
“The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.”
Source: Marc Chagall: 1887-1985
“The habit of looking at the last ten thousand years as well as at the array of early societies as a mere prelude to the true history of our civilization which started approximately with the publication of the Wealth of Nations in 1776, is, to say the least, out of date.”
Source: The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
“The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.”
Source: The Sense of Beauty
“The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.”
“The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.”
“The habit of mobility had become ingrained.”
Source: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
“The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop--and Reprinted Pieces