T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The loving parts of your personality are content, grateful, patient, appreciative, caring, and more. They are interested in others. They do not judge others or themselves. They are not confined by fear. The more you experience them, the more you experience joy.”
“The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of Life.”
“The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.”
“The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.”
“The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.”
“The loving vision does not become entangled in the agenda of power, seduction, opposition, or complicity. Such loving is creative and subversive. It rises above the pathetic arithmetic of blame and judgement and engages experience at the level of origin, structure, and destiny.”
Source: Anam Cara [Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition]: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.”
Source: Carrie
“The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally...”
“The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.”
Source: Darkness Everlasting
“The low E is at the top, the second string is A, then it's D, G, B, and the last one is high E." A mnemonic device he once heard came to mind and, plucking the strings, he said, "Eddie Ate Dynamite... Good Bye Eddie,.”
Source: Accidentally Married on Purpose
“The low early sunshine was streaming through the wood and the grass was grey with dew and the cobwebs were like silver. Just beside them was a little, very dark-wooded tree, about the size of an apple tree. The leaves were whitish and rather papery, like the herb called honesty, and it was loaded with little brown fruits that looked rather like dates.”
Source: The Magician’s Nephew
“The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“the low light entering the room from the west window always caused the large oval of the table to shine like a lake, a lake with the silver candlesticks floating on its surface.”
Source: A Map of Glass
“The low light indoor environment becomes biologically toxic to people with Bright Light Adaptation Disease (BLAD).”
“The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.”
“The low points are there for a good reason. I think they can teach you a life lesson.”
“The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.”
“The low suffer most the blow of the law”
Source: The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
“The low-tone clarinet moans. The door upstairs opens again. Stella slips down the rickety stairs in her robe. Her eyes are glistening with tears and her hair loose about her throat and shoulders. They stare at each other. Then they come together with low, animal moans. He falls to his knees on the steps and presses his face to her belly, curving a little with maternity. Her eyes go blind with tenderness as she catches his head and raises him level with her. He snatches the screen door open and lifts her off her feet and bears her into the dark flat.”
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
“The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.”
“The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.”
Source: Paradise Lost. [With a portrait.]
“The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five cents.”
“The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.”
“The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don't even have to make any effort.”
“The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.”
“The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children.”
Source: The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition
“The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered stronger, or acquire more effective teeth or claws, in order to defend themselves from new enemies; or they must be reduced in size so as to escape detection and danger. When they migrate into a colder climate they must become clothed with thicker fur, or have their constitutions altered. If they fail to be thus modified, they will cease to exist.”
Source: The origin of species by means of natural selection: The descent of man and selection in relation to sex
“The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.”
“The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go.”
Source: Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records
“The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.”
“The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.”
“The lower classes of people in Europe may at some future period
be much better instructed than they are at present; they may be taught
to employ the little spare time they have in many better ways than at
the ale-house; they may live under better and more equal laws than they
have ever hitherto done, perhaps, in any country; and I even conceive it
possible, though not probable that they may have more leisure; but it is
not in the nature of things that they can be awarded such a quantity of
money or subsistence as will allow them all to marry early, in the full
confidence that they shall be able to provide with ease for a numerous
family.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population
“The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.”
“The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.”
“The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.”
“The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.”
Source: Seven Men
“The lower orders of men are far closer to the higher orders of animals than to the higher orders of men, and we ought to recognize that fact. (From Katherine Cook Briggs, co-inventor of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)”
Source: The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
“The lower our self-esteem, the higher we climb the mountain of happiness, when we are complimented … or wanted.”
“The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.”
“The lower self is a ghost to the higher Self.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.”
“The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets. Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.”
“The lower the animal, the more selfish it is - higher animals are selfless animals, they are the real humans.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“The lower the class of the affair, the more likely the band will be invited to eat.”
Source: Notes from a Battered Grand: A Memoir/Fifty Years of Music, from Honky-Tonk to High Society
“The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working mothers has children under 3. Two out of 5 have children of school age. Among the remainder, about 50 percent have husbands who earn less than $5,000 a year-many of them much less. I believe they bear the heaviest burden of any group in our Nation. Where the mother is the sole support of the family, she often must face the hard choice of either accepting public assistance or taking a position at a pay rate which averages less than two-thirds of the pay rate for men.”
“The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.”
Source: A Little Book of F-Laws
“The lower the switching costs are, the better a company has to treat you if they want to keep your business.”
Source: The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
“The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.”