T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.”
Source: Suicide
“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”
Source: The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)
“The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.”
“The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.”
“The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do; that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion.”
“The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.”
“The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.”
“The man with courage is a majority.”
“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.”
“The Man With No Roots (Sonnet)
The day children are raised
without religion and nationality,
that's the beginning of peacemaking,
and the empirical end to warmongery.
Either raise your children with
no religion or multiple religions,
either raise your children with
no culture or multiple cultures.
I grew up celebrating Diwali,
eating fruitcake on the 25th,
and waking up to the call of Azaan -
if I'm devout anything, it's a devout human.
I have no roots, for I am the roots;
I am the ruin of all heritage of lies.
Illegal Immigrant in every state,
for I come from a Time beyond tribes.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“the man with one hand turned on an enormous radio and tuned it to a mastermix station where the songs are not sung so much as bleated. Bleated and repeated.”
Source: Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
“The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.”
“The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.”
“The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'”
“The man with the black-and-white-striped eyes shivered, and began hunting for a door, but none of the guests had remembered to bring a door with them.”
Source: Adventures in the Dream Trade
“The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.”
“The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.”
“The man with the persona is blind to the existence of inner realities, just as the other [man without a persona] is blind to the reality of the world, which for him has merely the value of an amusing or fantastic playground.”
Source: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
“The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”
“The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.”
“The man without a navel still lives in me.”
“The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“The man without emotions is the one to fear.”
Source: DUNE
“The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.”
“The man wore a black suit rather than a tuxedo, which made him both stand out from and blend into the crowd, a sore thumb on a broken hand.”
Source: American Pop
“The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man’s highest potential and strive to actualize it. . . . [Man-worshipers are] those dedicated to the exaltation of man’s self-esteem and the sacredness of his happiness on earth.”
Source: The Objectivist: 1966-1971
“The man would stop suffering, when he become capable of dissolving the I.”
“The man you are seeing is no man, Andy. He was Odin Borson, Allfather and King of Asgard. His wolves were Freki and Geri and his hall was Valhalla. He was my father and the father of many others. And he was your father.”
Source: SHADOW PANTHEON: (PANTHEON SAGA BOOK 2)
“The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.”
Source: Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel
“The man you’re going to marry should be like a brick: strong, sturdy, supportive and almost always hard in your presence.”
Source: A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket
“The man you see here, tied up off the shore of tortuga, is called Raven. He is an infamous pirate. He can fight, he can sail, and he fears no man. But he is not immune to mistakes.”
Source: Raven, Tome I : Némésis
“The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”
“The man's [Bush] embarrassing. He's not my president and he never will be either.”
“The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?”
Source: J. D. Robb In Death Collection
“The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?”
“The man, most man,
Works best for men, and, if most men indeed,
He gets his manhood plainest from his soul:
While, obviously, this stringent soul itself
Obeys our old rules of development;
The Spirit ever witnessing in ours,
And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul,
Evolving it sublimely.”
Source: Poems: From the last London ed., corrected by the author
“The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.”
Source: Toward a New Psychology of Women
“The man, the art, the work--it is all one.”
Source: Zen
“The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.”
Source: Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons
“The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.”
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.”
“The man-made laws have been made by men who have not perceived the final goal towards which they are making. And that is why it is so important to insist upon the final thing first, and then all the regulations, all the disciplines, will follow.”
“The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature-and struggle never to let him discover otherwise.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“THE MAN. Can't they realize that mankind was founded on two basic principles? Religion and Death? The one motivates the other. Both motivate the man!”
“The management has exploited our wish for infallible systems: here is the water, there is the land, no one can make a mistake. Up to this line there is no danger; on the other side of the line waits certain death. Therefore the alarm wails and the guests flee from their rooms with their clothes fluttering around them. The illusion of complete safety so long as the margin is not reached bears the reverse implication of complete panic once the margin is exceeded. It is easier to choose these sharp demarcation lines than uncertainty in our individual situation; the adjustment has been so small that in itself it is not disastrous, but could contribute to disaster.”
Source: Termush
“The management no longer depends upon the talents or skills of its workers---those things are built into the operating systems and machines. Jobs that have been "deskilled" can be filled cheaply. The need to retain any individual worker is greatly reduced by the ease with which he or she can be replaced.”