T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.”
Source: Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative
“The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.”
“The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.”
“The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.”
Source: Cakes and Ale
“The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.”
“The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players to improve their game, and never becomes monotonous.”
“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein.”
Source: Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
“The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.”
“The Ideal I live for in Life
“I value the ideal of living in eternal salvation where I am eternal prevailing in all things through Christ Jesus while walking on earth now.”
Daily prayer to commit my spirit to Jesus
“Lord Jesus Christ, into your hands I commit my spirit now.”
“The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.”
“The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal.”
“The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa
“The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books
“The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.”
“The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.”
“The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.”
Source: The Blazing Star
“The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.”
Source: The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students
“The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.”
“The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.”
Source: Paris Trance: A Romance
“The ideal is to have a workplace where people enjoy coming into work. That's good for everyone.”
“The ideal is to live forever, right? Or to live right now and just be grateful that I feel good. I'm definitely grateful for every second that I'm alive. At this point in my life, I definitely take time out throughout the day to just stop and be like, "Everything is cool." It's as good as it's gonna be, because it only gets worse.”
“The ideal is to put on shows where, if you go into the same space again, you don't remember ever having been there before, because where you were was a space that only existed that one time, created by the music.”
“The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth.”
“The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.”
Source: Camors: Or, Life Under the New Empire
“The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.”
“The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.”
“The ideal length of time for sex to last is the entire relationship, breaking only for snacks.”
“The ideal Lexivist should be a polymath or at least interested in many different areas and fields. When it comes to creativity, whether it is in CDT or art, the transformative effect which stems from our creations can have a liberating and inspirational effect on our very selves. What we excel at, whether that is business or politics, should carry a radiant and positive effect not just on the development and progression of the self but also to lead by example for those who surround us. To inspire them to do the same if they so choose.”
Source: Introduction to Lexivism
“The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.”
Source: Sermons
“The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.”
“The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.”
“The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.”
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."
— Aristotle”
“The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.”
“The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.”
“The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.”
Source: The complete plays
“The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.”
“The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.”
Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“The ideal mind of a thief is the state of mind of a successful thinker who knows what he does and labels not his actions but reproof the coward poor thinker”
“The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.”
Source: Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations
“The ideal number of sitting periods in a day will depend on individual aspiration and circumstances. If we decide that one of our periods of sitting will be thirty minutes, then sitting four periods of zazen in a day would already amount to two hours. At the very least, everyone should be able to make time for one period each day, and most people should be able to sit at least two, for a total of an hour a day. People with high aspirations should be able to sit three or four periods a day, although maintaining such a schedule every day is hardly easy.”
Source: Zen: The Authentic Gate
“The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.”
“The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.”
Source: Husserl, shorter works
“The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us”