T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The mailman walked towards my office door, half an hour earlier than usual. He didn’t sound right. His footsteps fell more heavily, jauntily, and he whistled. A new guy. He whistled his way to my office door and then fell silent for a moment. Then he laughed.”
Source: Storm Front
“The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home.”
“The maimings of love are endlessly funny.”
Source: The Moon in Its Flight
“The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.”
Source: Dave Barry Turns 50
“The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.”
Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays
“The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.”
“The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what's going on in contemporary fiction - not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.”
“The main advantage of being branded as
honest is that people do not fear you. They stop being jealous of you. And, most importantly, people will trust you with key information, important tasks and worthy projects.”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.”
“The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.”
“The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.”
“The main aim of God’s Word is to transform lives and perform miracles from above. His Word cuts through the lies and doubts caused by the wicked one.”
Source: The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes
“The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser. That's not what it's all about. It's to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.”
“The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.”
“The main and only primordial relationship is between the Being and the Nonbeing. The Being is immaterial and eternal; nothingness is eternal, too. In their primordial state, the Being and the Nonbeing become the same. Eternity means always and never, while infinity means everywhere and nowhere.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The main argument is that capitalism is constituted by a varied of different practices, and so challenging capitalism needs to be about a variety of struggles. I draw on the important work of J.K. Gibson-Graham, who argues that we should model anti-capitalist struggle on feminist struggles.”
“The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.”
“The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.”
Source: Life of Pi
“The main benefit of maths is to reduce superstitions, dogmas, and increase your confidence in finding facts.”
“The main benefit of optimism is resilience in the face of setback.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The main bone of contention is whether Islamic injunctions are legal or moral categories. When Muslims say Islam commands daily prayers or bans alcohol, are they talking about public obligations that will be enforced by the state or personal ones that will be judged by God?”
“The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.”
Source: Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omnia
“The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.”
“The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?”
Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader
“The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.”
“The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.”
Source: Self-portrait
“The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.”
“The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.”
“The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.”
“The main challenge is technology and that's something I really push and work closely with Adidas on. They're real leaders in sports performance; always trying to push that further and further and get the best technology they can. That takes time and has rigorous testing, it's very laborious, but it's also very rewarding. You get to work with fantastic athletes, and that's a fantastic thing that has nothing to do with my day job in ready-to-wear.”
“The main challenge is what to do in the face of double standards. Those who should be rendered accountable under international criminal law, the Kissingers of this world, enjoy de facto impunity, while those who come from countries that have long been targets of hegemonic abuse are used as poster children of accountability.”
“The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to the illegal trade of drugs and arms.”
“The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.”
“The main character and the hero. They aren’t the same thing.”
Source: My Friends
“The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.”
“The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that career. When he comes home from war no longer able to see himself as a baseball prospect, he isn't sure who he is. This is thoroughly reinforced every time one of his acquaintances identifies him by baseball or inquires about his status. How much of our identity and worth is wrapped up in our job title or the one we are aspiring to?”
Source: Playing With the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams
“The main character in the story of our lives should be those who share the story of their life with us. For the compilation of multiple stories shared over the span of one life combine to make the greatest story of any life.”
“The main character of any living system is openness.”
“The main characteristic of a great person is their humility.”
“The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy the individual is born into a collective and it is "natural" and proper for him to behave as members of this collective are expected to behave. Expected by whom? Of course, by those individuals to whom, by the mysterious decrees of some mysterious agency, the task of determining the collective will and directing the actions of the collective has been entrusted.”
“The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she always raises mixed crops; great pains are taken to preserve the soil and to prevent erosion; the mixed vegetable and animal wastes are converted into humus; there is no waste; the processes of growth and the processes of decay balance one another; ample provision is made to maintain large reserves of fertility; the greatest care is taken to store the rainfall; both plants and animals are left to protect themselves against disease.”
Source: An Agricultural
“The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.”
“The main characteristic of the Being, or the Universal Mind, is its creative power, which manifests itself superbly in the creation of the Universe.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.”
Source: Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart
“The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.”
“The main claim to fame, I think, of Bernie Sanders - who I've never met; I'm sure he's a pleasant guy - [is that] he's certainly not stupid.”
“The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.”
“The main concern of all great religions has been to fight a certain weariness and heaviness grown to epidemic proportions.”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.”
Source: Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies
“The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.”
Source: Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex