T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The most animated talks we have are about...things”
Source: Open
“The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.”
“The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.”
“The most annoying person on the BBC is Russell Brand, I've actually been close up to that boy. He smells like when you mix garlic with coffee and alcohol. I'm just saying when you get close to him, he could do with a bit of Sure For Men, he stinks.”
“The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.”
“The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.”
“The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.”
Source: The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality
“The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.”
“The most appropriate governmental powers are negative-those, that is, that protect the small and the weak from the great and powerful, not those by which the government becomes the profligate, ineffectual parent of the small and weak after it has permitted the great and powerful to make them helpless.”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.”
“The most arduous part of learning is preparing the mind to accept new knowledge.”
Source: New Earth
“The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.”
Source: High Tide in Tucson
“The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.”
“The most astounding realization hit her between the eyes like a stray tennis ball.
Liam Landry had nearly kissed her just now. Not because there were reporters watching, but because he wanted to.”
Source: Game Set Love
“The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know.”
“The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.”
Source: Essays in Love
“The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.”
“The most attractive quality of all is dignity.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.”
“The most attractive thing that I've seen in the creative realm is the enthusiasm in people that does not seem to burn out. That's what I'm after.”
“The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.”
“The most authentic and hallowed Wiccan tradition is stealing from any source that didn't run away too fast”
Source: Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
“The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root.”
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
“The most 'authoritative' accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did not come into the Bible as original and authoritative from the authors themselves, but rather from the influence of early church fathers, especially the most influential of them all: Irenaeus of Lyon who lived in the middle of the second century. Many heretical gospels existed by that time, but Irenaeus considered only some of them for mystical reasons. He claimed only four in number; according to Romer, 'like the four zones of the world, the four winds, the four divisions of man's estate, and the four forms of the first living creatures-- the lion of Mark, the calf of Luke, the man of Matthew, the eagle of John.”
Source: Atheist Responses to Religious Arguments
“The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.”
“The most awesome mission of the storm is that it reminds us that the universe is never actually a calm garden with flowers! Peace is always an exception in this universe!”
“The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.”
Source: Anthills of the Savannah
“The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.”
“The most bad thing about Corona virus now. It is that .It is making all the bad and evil people rich. Which means bad people won't allow good people to find a cure or wont allow Covid to end. They will do everything in their power to make sure that Covid continues forever , because it is making them more richer.”
“The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
“The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.”
“The most basic act of awareness or knowing that we can demonstrate in science. I postulate that that is the very basis of why we're conscious at all, that it is this relationship at the quantum level as matter evolves into more complex form, including plants and animals and living substance and ourselves, that this area of consciousness as an awareness becomes more and more complex.”
“The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.”
“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.”
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.”
“The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.”
Source: The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century
“The most basic definition of a story is 'Somebody wants something and something's in his way,' and I'm more likely to be engaged if I at least think I know what those two 'somethings' are. They can be simple, they can be complex, but - particularly if you're a beginning writer - I'd rather you err on the side of revealing too much than too little.”
“The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.”
“The most basic elements of our life—our birth and our death—are out of our control. People spend a lifetime trying to control these things but it’s impossible.”
Source: Friendship Bread
“The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.”
“The most basic human instinct i sto survive. Evolution got us this far. From hunger-gatherers to men on the moon. From spear fishermen to people who sing "Happy Birthday" to one another, across continents, on Zoom.
Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes.
And yet, nuclear war zeroes it all out.
Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash”
“The most basic human instinct is to survive. Evolution got us this far. From hunger-gatherers to men on the moon. From spear fishermen to people who sing "Happy Birthday" to one another, across continents, on Zoom.
Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes.
And yet, nuclear war zeroes it all out.
Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash.”
“The most basic human instinct is to survive. Evolution got us this far. From hunter-gatherers to men on the moon. From spear fishermen to people who sing "Happy Birthday" to one another, across continents, on Zoom.
Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes.
And yet, nuclear war zeroes it all out.
Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash.”
“The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the best possible result in each separate instance.”
“The most basic kinder class lesson:
1. Avoid Binding whenever possible.
2. Avoid “Naming, Labeling, Defining, or otherwise Constraining” whenever possible.
3. Understand that the field will Amplify and Reflect. If you project foulness and destruction, it will return to you amplified. If you project warmth and kindness, it will return and be amplified to you.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery