T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.”
“The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.”
“The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system”
Source: Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991
“The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.”
“The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch.' The American people's work created that money. Only in Washington could there be a belief that letting people keep more of what they create is a giveaway.”
“The most lavish prophylaxis against hydrophobia in the hunting hound was carried out, fittingly, by the kings of France. In the hunting accounts of the French palace, historians have found annual outlays for all the king’s hounds to undergo a special ceremony. They were transported to the Church of St. Menier les Moret, in order “to have a mass sung in the presence of the said hounds, and to offer candles in their sight, for fear of the mal de rage”—that is, the disease of rabies. One wonders whether the hounds howled along.”
Source: Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
“The most learned are often the most narrow minded.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.”
“The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.”
Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“The most liberating moment, is the moment you finally let go.”
Source: Imperfect Truth
“The most liberating regime is the one where you're both the governor and the governed.”
“The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.”
“The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.”
“The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be”
“The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.”
“The most likely person to kill you is your wife, but that probably won't happen. What probably will happen is a million little betrayals of varying degrees of pain, brought on by people you love, the only ones who really can hurt you.”
Source: Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
“The most likely possibility, favored by current data, is that the universe will die in Ice, not Fire. However, personally I believe that trillions of years from now, we (if we are still around) will have the technology to leave the universe, perhaps in an interdimensional life boat, and move to a warmer universe.”
“The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.”
Source: Theories of the Earth and Universe: A History of Dogma in the Earth Sciences
“The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.”
“The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.”
“The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions.”
Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963
“The most [...] literal proposal to solve the problem of congestion comes from Harvey Wiley Corbett [...] Ultimately, Corbett calculates, the entire surface of the city could be a single traffic plane, an ocean of cars, increasing the traffic potential 700 percent. "[...We see] a very modernized Venice, a city of arcades, plazas and bridges, with canals for streets, only the canals will not be filled with real water but with freely flowing motor traffic, the sun glistening on the black tops of the cars and the buildings reflecting in this waving flood of rapidly rolling vehicles. From an architectural viewpoint [...] the idea presents all the loveliness, and more, of Venice. There is nothing incongruous about it, nothing strange..." Corbett's "solution" for New York's traffic problem is the most blatant case of disingenuity in Manhattanism's history. Pragmatism so distorted becomes pure poetry. Not for the moment does the theorist intend to relieve congestion; his true ambition is to escalate it to such intensity that it generates -- as in a quantum leap -- a completely new condition, where congestion becomes mysteriously positive [... Corbett and the authors of the Regional Plan] have invented a method to deal rationally with the fundamentally irrational. [They know] that it would be suicide to solve Manhattan's problems, that they exist by the grace of these problems, that it is their duty to make its problems, if anything, forever insurmountable, that the only solution for Manhattan is the extrapolation of its freakish history, that Manhattan is the city of the perpetual flight forward.”
Source: Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
“The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.”
Source: The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence and papers, January 1796-December 1798
“The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.”
Source: Gertrude
“The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.”
Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays
“the most lovable of exceptional American qualities (is) our tradition of insisting that we are part of the middle class, even if we aren’t, and of interacting with our fellow citizens as if we were all middle class.”
Source: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
“The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.”
“The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.”
“The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon.”
“The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.”
“The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.”
Source: I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
“The most maddening part of any battle was the waiting.”
Source: Revenant Gun
“The most magical key for success is this simple sentence: I can do it! Repeat this in your mind! I can do it! I can do it! I can do it!”
“The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.”
“The most magical thing I have come across is a beautiful face with a beautiful heart and it's you❤ ❤”
“The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.”
“The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.”
Source: Ghostwritten
“The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.”
Source: History of Science and New
“The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.”
“The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.”
“The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.”
“The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.”
“The most meaningful conversations are the ones you don’t expect to have.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.”
“The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling.”
“The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.”
“The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.”
Source: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy
“The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.”