T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.”
Source: The First Codex
“The line between disorder and order lies in logistics.”
“The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin”
“The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.”
“The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”
“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.”
Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things
“The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?”
Source: The Diviners: Number 1 in series
“The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.”
Source: The road ahead
“The line between friends and enemies is usually very thin. In a realm where the delicate dance between love and infatuation often blurs and reasoning grapples with the tides of emotion, *a man must become a blacksmith of his own soul.* He Must wield his reasoning as a hammer to forge his emotions, upon the anvil of self-awareness. Each strike of the brain-hammer reverberates with clarity, tempering the heart’s wild impulses, separating the enduring glow of love from the fleeting flicker of infatuation. Sparks of illusion scatter while the tongs of introspection hold the heart steady, ensuring that only genuine emotion is shaped by the steady hand of reason in this crucible of inner truth”
“The line between genius and stupidity is drawn by vision. And let me tell you, the view from inside a dragon's digestive tract is filled with insight.”
Source: 8-Bit Theater
“The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.”
“The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.”
“The line between greatness and insanity is very thin, James. Many great people actually cross over it more than once.”
Source: A Place for Wolves
“The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.”
“The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.”
Source: Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
“The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.”
“The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries.”
Source: The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
“The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.”
Source: Politics
“The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.”
Source: Way of Life and Death
“The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.”
“The line between love and hate is thin.”
Source: Lines
“The line between magic and science is fuzzy to begin with [...]”
Source: Gifted & Talented
“The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.”
Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir
“The line between 'normal' and 'neurotic' begins to appear when any activity becomes compulsive - that is, when the person feels pushed to perform the act because it habitually allays his anxiety rather than because of any intrinsic wish to perform the act.”
Source: The Meaning Of Anxiety
“The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.”
“The line between playing to win and sin is thin,
But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste.
I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.”
“The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.”
“The line between producers, songwriters, and remixers is so thin.”
“The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.”
Source: King Kong Theory
“The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.”
Source: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
“The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.”
Source: Difficult Loves
“The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!”
“The line between true love and infatuation is usually very thin. In a realm where the delicate dance between the two often blurs and reasoning grapples with the tides of emotion, a man must become a blacksmith of his own soul. He Must wield his reasoning as a hammer to forge his emotions, upon the anvil of self-awareness. Each strike of the brain-hammer reverberates with clarity, tempering the heart’s wild impulses, separating the enduring glow of love from the fleeting flicker of infatuation. Sparks of illusion scatter while the tongs of introspection hold the heart steady, ensuring that only genuine emotion is shaped by the steady hand of reason in this crucible of inner truth”
“The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.”
Source: Just One Day
“The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.”
“The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“The line between winning and losing is so thin. Just like the line between night and day is unseen.”
“The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going to be beaten up by me and these kids, unborn, not knowing they were going to be born into the family of a child-beater just because I was. So it really did have a great effect on me.”
“The line comes before meaning.”
Source: Square Sun Square Moon: A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays
“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
“The line dividing the comics' advocates and opponents was generational, rather than geographic. While many of the actions to curtail comics were attempts to protect the young, they were also efforts to protect the culture at large from the young. Encoded in much of the ranting about comic books and juvenile delinquency were fears not only of what comic readers might become, but of what they already were--that is, a generation of people developing their own interests and tastes, along with a determination to indulge them.”
Source: Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book-Scare and How It Changed America
“The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.”
“The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.”
Source: Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
“The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.”
“The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.”
“The line is "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past." We've interpreted it as the meaning of us [when we] went against the current, against the grain and did what felt natural to us...regardless of what we thought we were supposed to be doing. We threw all of that out the window. We existed how we wanted to.”
“The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.”
“The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.”
“The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.”
Source: Lyrics:1962-2012