T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The impression I have, therefore, of marriage in my sixties is of a time when I took to living only for the moment -- when, above all, I took to expecting nothing that long years of close association had by now, at long last, assured me would never occur. He would not change his personality or his habits of loving, and neither would I. [pp. 213-214].”
Source: The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
“The impression is that love is something that happens to you like magic. That love is something others do for you, but that you cannot do for yourself. Love is not something you wait for. Love doesn't just happen. Love is something you do. When you want love, give love. Moment to moment, you make the choice whether to give love and be loved.”
Source: Success Is the Quality of Your Journey
“The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.”
“The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him”
Source: The bronze bow
“The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A soft wood, with hard annulations, such as fir, prints very dearly.”
“The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.”
“The impression that is out there about me is that I'm really hard-nosed, but the people who really know me, know that I am a soft touch.”
“The impression that the world could swallow itself (…) and in a reverse movement could vomit it to a distant innermost, that would answer to the name ‘nowhere’.”
Source: The Girl from the Chartreuse
“The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.”
“The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.”
Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
“The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows.”
“The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.”
“The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.”
“The impressions on the soul that comes from the Holy Ghost are far more significant than a vision. It is where the spirit speaks to spirit and the imprint upon the soul is far more difficult to erase.”
“The impressive record of atrocities racked up by the human race does not suggest that our conduct is guided by sympathy for others.”
Source: The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
“The impressive thing about dreams is that they help you become progressive. You may have failed to dream and win yesterday. You can still dream today and achieve those dreams tomorrow.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.”
“the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of braille.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.”
“The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.”
Source: The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself
“The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.”
“The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny.”
“The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you do feel like you want to match and develop things.”
“The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.”
“The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.”
“The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.”
Source: The kingdom of God: and peace essays
“The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.”
“The improvement of relations with German is positive, but this does not mean that we no longer have very important problems.”
“The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.”
“The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.”
“The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
Source: Huxley's Autobiography and Essays
“The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.”
“The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.”
“The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.”
Source: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
“The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his feet; and he heard himself saluted Emperor by the unanimous voice of the senate and people. But the day of his inauguration was the last day of his happiness.”
Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus
“The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.”
“The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.”
“THE IMPULSE IS TO SQUEEZE AND
FONDLE BABY WILD ANIMALS
BUT THEN THEY'D BE BROKEN AND
WHAT GOOD WOULD THEY BE?”
“The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean.”
Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters
“The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.”
“The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.”
“The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.”
Source: Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
“The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.”
Source: The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas
“The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will live its own life, that will belong to everybody. I accept that surface.”
“The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.”
“The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.”
Source: A Casual Commentary
“The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist”
“The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?”
Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations