T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.”
“The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“The only effect that I ever noticed from smoking marijuana was a sort of mild sedative, a release of tension when I was overworking. It never made me boisterous of quarrelsome. If anything, it calmed me and reduced my activity.”
“The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.”
“The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage and guide them always to do their own thinking in their attempts at understanding and dealing with child-rearing situations and problems, and not to rely blindly on the opinions of others.”
“The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.”
“The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.”
“The only emotional connection of relevance is with my dog. My relationship with my dog, it's ridiculous.”
“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”
“The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.”
“The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.”
Source: Discourses Concerning Government
“The only enduring influence we have to offer others is the influence God has in our own lives.”
“The only enemy is evil.”
“The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.”
“The only enemy is the sea.”
Source: A Study in Drowning
“The only enemy of art is taste.”
“The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.”
“The only enemy which stands between the talent you posses and success you achieve is known as "EGO" in our Society”
Source: KISS Life "Life is what you make it"
“The only energy that has any power in your life is the gift of breath from God.”
Source: Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour
“The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.”
“The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.”
Source: Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes
“The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.”
“The only entry level position on a movie is director.”
“The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.”
“The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote Avatar for him. He even has a scene that's pretty . . . hot [knowing smile]. He was very happy.”
“The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations in his conduct; if there are not, we may blame his manner of judging, but we are not the less bound to esteem him.”
“The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up one morning and shot himself. Nicklaus got up the next morning and shot 66.”
“The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.”
“The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.”
Source: Gaudy Night
“The only ethics that will effectively guide mankind are those that mankind did not create.”
“The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness.”
“The only everyday and eternal reality was love.”
Source: Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The only evidence I had at all that Rhys remained on the premises were the blank copies of the alphabet, along with several sentences I was to write every day, swapping out words, each one more obnoxious that the last.
Rhys is the most handsome High Lord.
Rhys is the most delightful High Lord.
Rhys is the most cunning High Lord.
Every day, one miserable sentence- with one changing word of varying arrogance and vanity. And every day, another simple set of instructions: shield up, shield down, shield up, shield down. Over and over and over.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.”
“The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.”
Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose
“The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.”
“The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.”
“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.”
Source: Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
“The only excuse for prejudice is a feeble mind of low power capacity.”
“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.”
Source: De Officiis: (English Edition)
“The only excuse from a man who abuses you are the ones we give him.”
Source: A River Moves Forward
“The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.”
“The only exercise I get is on the stage. If I didn't get that, I'd get a little round around the tummy, as much as I eat.”
“The only exercise I get is playing sports because I hate the gym. I try to learn to love it.”
“The only exercise I get is walking to the betting office.”
“The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.”
“The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.”