T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.”
“That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication.
You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.”
“That is the way it is done, the way it has always been done. Frogs have every right to expect it will always be done that way.”
Source: Cannery Row
“That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“That is the way of being a woman, to carve away at herself, to fit herself to the task, but, also, to be able to carve herself in a different way, when a different shape is needed.”
“That is the way of the gods. When they intervene, everyone loses something.”
Source: The Dryad's Crown
“That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.”
Source: Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays
“That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.”
“That is the way successful countries, and Canada has been one of the most successful countries over the past quarter century, they operate. That when you win, you win within limits, when you lose, you accept the outcome.”
“That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.”
“That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.”
Source: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
“That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.”
“That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.”
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.”
Source: City of Thieves: A Novel
“That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.”
Source: Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories
“That is the way with us when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition : if our talents are chiefly of the burrowing kind, our honey-sipping cousin (whom we have grave reasons for objecting to) is likely to have a secret contempt for us, and any one who admires him passes an oblique criticism on ourselves.”
Source: Middlemarch
“That is the way with us when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition: if our talents are chiefly of the burrowing kind, our honey-sipping cousin (whom we have grave reasons for objecting to) is likely to have a secret contempt for us, and any one who admires him passes an oblique criticism on ourselves. Having the scruples of rectitude in our souls, we are above the meanness of injuring him—rather we meet all his claims on us by active benefits; and the drawing of cheques for him, being a superiority which he must recognize, gives our bitterness a milder infusion.”
Source: Middlemarch
“That is, the way worse than death, it is, the fear of death”
“That is the wealthy man's secret... Always let other men fight your battles.”
Source: Dietland
“That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.”
“That is the White House, where you can fit four times the amount of people in the press conference, allowing more press, more coverage from all over the country to have those press conferences. That's what we're talking about.”
“That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.”
“That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire us and teach us what is possible”
Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“That is the word of reality - need.”
Source: Death Comes as the End
“That is the work of your teenage years - to build up and tear down and build up again, over and over, endlessly...
They do not tell you this when you are fourteen, because the people who would tell you - your parents - are the very ones who built the thing you're so dissatisfied with. They made you how they want you. They made you how they need you. They built you with all they know, and love - and so they can't see what you're not: all the gaps you feel leave you vulnerable. All the new possibilities ony imagined by your geenration, and nonexistent to theirs. They have done their best... but now it's up to you, small, brave future, to do your best with what you have.”
Source: How to Build a Girl
“That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.”
“That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good.”
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
“That is the worst thing about despair: it is not constant, any more than love is.”
Source: In a Dark Wood
“That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.”
Source: Tales of Wonder
“That is, to be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“That is to say that at the heart of existence is that double negation, “one can not, not.”
Source: Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine
“That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.”
“That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.”
“That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.”
“That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.”
Source: Gilead: A Novel
“That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.”
“That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the right level of affect in the citizenry.”
Source: Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
“That is to say, the inspiration, the interpretive richness of the text is what Elie [Wiesel] does publicly, and his interest in history is his private reserve; he knows that he is not an expert in dissecting the text the way Frank [Moore Cross] does.”
“That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.”
“That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.”
“That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.”
“That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness.”
“That is us. We are the slag of creations far greater.”
Source: The Subtle Cause
“That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.”
“That is Veronika Selig. A year ago she went with Roman Maria, into life. She stayed there a long time — in between, her eyes became darker. But now she is here, again. —”
Source: Others' Paradise
“That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.”
“That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.”