T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.”
“The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.”
“The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.”
“The main purpose of our time is to establish God’s Kingdom on this earth.”
“The main purpose of poetry is to illuminate realities which are at times undecipherable and trapped in history, politics, and society--most often understood at a superficial level.”
Source: By the River Mandovi
“The main purpose of production is to manufacture items of good quality for daily use in abundant supply, thereby enhancing and improving the life for everyone and it is this goal that I am dedicated.”
“The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.”
Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics
“The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.”
Source: The Terrible Truth about Liberals
“The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.”
“The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.”
“The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.”
“The main quality of leadership..........is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!”
“The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.”
Source: A Blow at Trial by Jury: An Examination of the Special Jury Law Passed by the New York Legislature in 1896
“The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.”
“The main question is if there can be any space without space, although this sounds absurd, for it is evident that there can be no space without space. However, if there can be no space without space, how can there be the curvature of space if there is no space? Then, we may answer that there is space and engage in circular reasoning. On a superficial level, some “obvious axioms” lead us to accept that there is space as it is without questioning how that is, how it is possible, and what creates this space. Then, we may answer that, based on laws of physics, nature works in such ways and that there are four main forces, and that based on all our knowledge and theories confirmed by experiments, we conclude and state, based on a “fact,” that there is a curvature of space.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The main question is what powers matter and motion. The answer is that the engine of Everything is the Universal Mind. Matter is only a “program” of the Universal Mind, which we perceive as matter based on our sensory apparatus.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us.”
“The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith: Three Volumes Complete in One
“The main questions in frames are "Who are you to the person you are conversing with?" and
"Who is the person to you?" Frames determine who you are to each other in group contexts, such as social circles and night games. Every reaction has an impact on the interaction's story or deeper significance. The interaction's "tone" is established by them. However, every reaction also shapes how the receiver is perceived by others; your acts will shape how the receiver sees you.”
“The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.”
“The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.”
“The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain, cold, and heat; cars are there to overcome distances. Culture is the exception. Music, art, and all of the different cultural expressions are not going in that direction. They're not about comfort; they're about understanding each other.”
“The main reason for doing it now had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team.”
“The main reason for healing is love.”
“The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!”
“The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.”
Source: Conversations with Saul Bellow
“The main reason for the break was a combination of travel and going back to university, which drew me into theatre more than music. I did stuff on acoustic guitar when I was traveling, filed it away and made notes, without it being musical notation. Just taped the odd thing, did a sketch, stuck it on a cassette. I thought at some point, I'll go back to it. Some of it I did use in '84-'85 when I started working in the Free Theatre in Christchurch. So it might seem like I had given up after the Pin Group, but I just went into a different avenue.”
“The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.”
Source: Claes Oldenburg, Constructions, Models, and Drawings: Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, April 30-May 31, 1969
“The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.”
Source: The Bach Flower Remedies
“The main reason for the people who support a dictator is that their character perfectly match with the character of that dictator! They both have a mean personality!”
“The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.”
Source: Think
“The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it.”
“The main reason humans suffer is because they don’t agree with what they want.”
“The main reason I decided to study Latin American literature was because I'd gotten somewhat bored by the American fiction I was reading. I am not drawn to a specific style or aesthetic. When I think about literature, I think about it in the three languages I read easily - English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The authors I prefer are all very different and are not limited to certain genres or even certain time periods. Reading across three languages is a way for me to diversify my intake as a reader, not to tunnel into certain categories or demographics.”
“The main reason I didn’t look into the future too much was because … well, I just didn’t want to.
Life wasn’t very interesting when you knew what was going to happen.”
Source: Slippery Slope
“The main reason I have come here is to shuffle Death back to the place where it belong. That won't happen if I don't get to tangle with it.”
Source: As Bright as Heaven
“The main reason I like UFC is not just the martial arts aspect, but it's about one person against the other person. It's about being able to test yourself with the truth.”
“The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.”
“The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.”
“The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.”
“The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.”
“The main reason intuition is so important is this: It is a clear sign that you are connecting with your inner spiritual guidance system. Intuition is a direct signal from your deepest self that you are navigating from your true center.”
Source: The Corporate Mystic: A Guidebook for Visionaries with Their Feet on the Ground
“The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about.”
“The main reason of fear of failure lies in people’s being unaware of the impact of misfortune on achieving success”
“The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.”
“The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money...but never learn to have money work for them.”
Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
“The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'”
“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
“The main reason that violence correlates with low socioeconomic status today is that the elites and the middle class pursue justice with the legal system while the lower classes resort to what scholars of violence call “self-help.”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined