T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate through our intimacy with disappearance, our choice is to inhabit vulnerability as generous citizens of loss, robustly and fully, or conversely, as misers and complainers, reluctant and fearful, always at the gates of existence, but never bravely and completely attempting to enter, never wanting to risk ourselves, never walking fully through the door.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“The only Christian work is good work, well done”
“The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.”
“The only church that illuminates is a burning church.”
“The only cigarettes allowed in the Dominican Republic were those made from tobacco grown on Trujillo’s plantations and manufactured at his 1,600-man cigarette factory. Although Dominican tobacco is good when used in making cigars, the people wanted what they couldn’t have and that was American-made cigarettes, which were impossible to get on the island. It was also more profitable to raise sugarcane on the available land, so that also hampered the amount of tobacco grown. Noticing the bumboats around the stern, I shouted down to them, asking what they were selling. It turned out that they were buying and were willing to pay $50 per carton for the same American cigarettes that we only paid twenty-five cents a pack for. At that time we were allowed to keep the ship’s store open in port, so the arithmetic made sense. I quickly bought five cartons at $2.50 each, and started lowering them down in a bucket. Each time I lowered a carton of Lucky Strikes, $50.00 came back up. Not bad, and all went well, until I got to the fourth carton and the bucket came up empty. The scoundrel, on his bumboat, was heading back to the port with a carton that he didn’t pay for. There were still other vendors in boats looking to make a deal, but by now I couldn’t buy any more cigarettes because the ship’s storekeeper had figured out what was happening. Knowing that it would deplete the cigarettes left in the ship’s store, he dropped the wire screen closure. Okay, I knew what to do…. I went to the carpenter’s locker and carefully slit open my remaining carton and filled the empty carton with sawdust before resealing it again. Down went the carton and up came $50. With that, I closed up shop, knowing that the guys in the bumboats would figure out what had happened and would try to get even. I wound up with $200 and 10 packs of cigarettes, less my unforeseen expenses. Not a bad day’s work.”
“The only city people are those born so.”
Source: Ade's fables
“The only class I'm interested in, is the class of character, determined not by blood or money, but by intent and behavior.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.”
Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
“The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.”
“The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.”
“The only clothes Amanda has are the ones on her back. (Kyrian) From what I saw, she had no clothes whatsoever on her back. Her front neither. (Nick) One day, Gaitor bait... (Kyrian) Note to self- be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)”
“The only club I have ever belonged to is the James Bond fan club. Member since 1979.”
“The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?”
“The only color I don't have is navy brown.”
“The only colour I see is this wonderful green and blue planet.”
“The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.”
“The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.”
Source: The letters
“The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.”
Source: The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty
“The only common problem, I had seen about black people .It is that they are compassionate, forgiving, admires, talented, hard working, understanding, reasonable, poor and loving people. That makes them easy target to decolonize, undermine, use, disrespect and take advantage of.”
“The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.”
“The only company you should enjoy most is nature’s company, because nature has a way of revealing your individuality.”
Source: The Infinity Sign
“The only comparison that should be made is placing who you are today beside who you were yesterday.”
“The only compensation for land is land.”
Source: The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings
“The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.”
Source: The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection
“The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.”
Source: Works: English traits, Conduct of life
“The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.”
“The only competition allowed is to outstrip each other in showing love and respect.”
Source: Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
“The only competition in art is the search for truth. No matter who gets there first, we all win.”
“The only competition that matters is the one that takes place within yourself.”
Source: Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion
“The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.”
Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems
“The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.”
“The only competition you will have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.”
“The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.”
“The only complicated things worth fighting for will change the world in some way and/or make you lots of money, and a complicated relationship will only keep you from doing either.”
“The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.”
“The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.”
“The only conclusion I could arrive at with the death of the workers' movement as a revolutionary force - you know the imagery of the proletarian vanguard, or proletarian hegemony - has been the community.”
“The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.”
Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays
“The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.”
Source: Among My Books: Six Essays
“The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.”
“The only condition more appalling, less practical, than world government is the lack of it in this atomic age. Most of the scientists who produced the bomb admit that. Nationalism and the split atom cannot coexist in the planet.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.”
“The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.”
“The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.”
“The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.”
“The only consent hinge in life is that everyhin is changing. And that's a little scary, but it means that hints can't be bad or hard forever.”
“The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.”
“The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.”
“The only consistent and unconditional happiness that we are promised can only be found INSIDE each one of us”