T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”
“The innocent and wicked looked the same in death and required much of the same to survive, yet it was only the actions in life that distinguished them.”
Source: Marin
“The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.”
Source: A case of Exploding Mangoes
“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“The Innocent child Inside you are Always the Best Part of Your Life.”
“The innocent is the person who explains nothing”
Source: Carnets: 1935-1942
“The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.”
Source: Poems of Francis Thompson
“The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.”
“The innocent put their faith into their government, whereas the smart do their own research and adopt protective lifestyle changes based on biological science.”
“The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.”
“The innocent should never have to suffer from the battles of others. (Valerius) I know, but it seems to always be the case. (Acheron) A furore infra, libera nos - spare us from the fury within. (Valerius)”
“The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.”
Source: Just Representations: A James Gould Cozzens Reader
“The innocent trust their government, whereas the smart research their government to see if they are trustworthy.”
“The innocent wept. The guilty pretended.”
“The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.”
Source: Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
“The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, including China, India, Brazil, and Australia, and AlwaysOn events are on top of these trends.”
“The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody.”
“The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.”
“The innovations are changing now, drastically. I remember coming to Toronto from Vancouver, and on any given night in the '70s, '80s and early '90s, everything was closed at ten o'clock. There was no drinking on Sundays. Unless you stayed at a hotel, then you could get a drink.”
“The innovations are far more important because the technology itself has now way to impact the world for good until it's embedded in the business model. Innovation it's the combination of the simplifying technology and the business model.”
“The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.”
“The innovative mind doesn’t do different things, they do things differently for solving problems.”
Source: 100 Digital Rules
“The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.”
“The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.”
“The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.”
Source: The Prince
“The innovator is not an opponent of the old; he is a proponent of the new.”
“The innovator's motto is this: I succeed or I learn but I never fail.”
“The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.”
Source: The Second Sex
“The innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources, things, and the earth. It will necessitate living as if our very breath is a gift and every person in our lives is an opportunity to pass on the gifts we have received. The death of the old paradigm and all of the trappings of industrial civilization will provide
space to forge new values, new relationships, and minimize, if not completely obliterate, the concept of debt from human consciousness.”
Source: Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
“The inoffensive person attracts an offense.”
“The inorganic intelligence calling the shots in this place uses people’s own powerfully creative psyches to generate an energy farm (which we rather cavalierly call the world) to sustain … itself!
Truly, the masses—like thrashing, masochistic puppets controlled from above by emotional strings—are living in a hell of their own largely unconscious making.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.”
“The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.”
“The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.”
Source: Papers: Harold C. Syrett, Editor; Jacob E. Cooke, Associate Editor
“The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.”
Source: William Blake
“The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts.”
Source: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods
“The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.”
“The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.”
“The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.”
“The inquisitive nature of youth should carry over into our adult lives. Challenging the status quo and enticing curiosity should be a daily practice of adult life.”
Source: The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
“The Inquisitor stared at him as if he were a talking cockroach. "Do you know about the cuckoo bird, Jonathan Morgenstern?"
Jace wondered if perhaps being the Inquisitor—it couldn't be a pleasant job—had left Imogen Herondale a little unhinged.
"The cuckoo bird," she said. "You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places."
"Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?"
"It was an analogy."
"I am not fat.”
Source: City of Ashes
“The Inquisitor stared at him. “Your Highness, where is Iolanthe Seabourne?”
Right here in this room.
He was on guard, very, very much on guard. Yet he still felt his lips part and form the shape necessary to pronounce the first syllable of the truth. “I thought we had already established that I have neither interest in nor knowledge of your elemental mage.”
“Why are you protecting her, Your Highness?”
Because she is mine. You will have her over my dead body.”
Source: The Burning Sky
“The Inquisitor waited for silence. "Do you believe in anything?"
"Not if I can help it. Belief alone is nothing to be proud of, Inquisitor. Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.”
Source: Red Country
“The INS, by their actions, is telling would-be illegal aliens that if you don't get caught entering the U.S., we'll look the other way so you can stay.”
“The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.”
Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)
“The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.”
Source: Love's Body
“The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.”
“The insane little dwarf, Bush.”