T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.”
Source: I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story
“The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.”
“The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us, where will we turn? We turn to Christ. We turn to the suffering and death of Christ—the blood of Christ. This is the only cleansing agent in the universe that can give the conscience relief in life and peace in death.”
“The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.”
Source: The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day
“The only answer that has any chance against against the information saturation kids face these days is to talk openly with kids, early enough and often enough and unflinchingly enough that you set the precedent of being the safe place they can go to ask their difficult questions. It has to happen starting when they're 2 or 3, and they ask you where babies come from and instead of freaking out and deflecting, you give facts commensurate with their ability to understand.”
“The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both."”
“The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
“The only answer to death is the heat and confusion of living; the only dependable warmth is the warmth of the blood.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.”
“The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.”
“The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died”
“The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.”
Source: Impossible Objects
“The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.”
“The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me."”
“The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.”
“The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.”
“The only antidote to materialism is giving, because materialism's all about getting. Every time I give, my heart grows bigger. Every time I give, I become more like Jesus.”
“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.”
“The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.”
“The only antidote to the unnerving effects of such incoherence is integrity. People and organizations with integrity are wholly themselves. No aspect of self stands different or apart. At their center is clarity, not conflict. When they go inside to find themselves, there is only one self there.”
“The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.”
“The only area of strength for Satan’s rulership is in our area of ignorance.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The only argument about the efficacy of the blood of Jesus is to augment your faith & occupy till He comes.”
“The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.”
“The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...”
“The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.”
“The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.”
“The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.”
“The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.”
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
Source: Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader
“The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.”
“The only assurance to share is that change is forever constant.”
“The only atheism is the denial of truth.”
Source: The rosy fingers: the building forms of thought and action in the new era
“The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.”
Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994
“The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.”
“The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.”
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.”
Source: Democracy in America
“The only award I've been nominated for is a Scottish BAFTA. A Scottish BAFTA, it's like hearing that the animals have their own Olympics. You hear all this stuff about TV being faked. Of course it's faked. It's all faked. That documentary a couple of weeks ago about tribal warfare among monkeys, that was all filmed in a Yates wine lodge in Dundee. Comic Relief is faked. Everybody in Africa is fine.”
“The only "B" word you should ever call a woman is beautiful. Why? Because bitches love to be called beautiful. - T-shirt.”
Source: Execution Style
“The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.”
“The only bad exercise is the one you skipped.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“The only bad ideas are the ones never tried.”
Source: The Problem Child (The Sisters Grimm #3): 10th Anniversary Edition
“The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate.”
Source: Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel
“The only bad studio is the unused one.”
“The only bad thing about living a long life is all the people you lose along that journey.”
Source: Eating Yellow Paint
“The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.”
“The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album to album and still be just as good or better. I didn't feel that we were able to do that. The Beatles were in a class by themselves.”
“The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.”
“The only barrier greater than ignorance is apathy.”