T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me--that is Michael Jackson.”
“The only man alive to see it, though, was a wealthy recluse and neurotic, so beset by the embarrassments of society that he had withdrawn from it entirely. For him, every conversation, every transaction, down to the briefest and most businesslike, had become yet another occasion for injury. Those countless social encounters, with their countless tiny cuts--cuts inflicted, cuts received, and the one just as painful to remember as the other. Those smiles preceded by telltale pauses. Those favors both sexual and financial. Those what-do-you-thinks and let-me-borrow-you-for-a-seconds. It had all been too much for him, too freighted with need and misunderstanding....”
Source: The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
“The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.”
Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.”
“The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.”
“The only man I’ve ever been attracted to, and he comes with a bloody contract, a flogger, and a whole world of issues.”
“The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.”
“The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”
Source: Man and Superman
“The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.”
“The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one”
“The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.”
Source: Life is a Banquet
“The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.”
“The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.”
“The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
“The only man who is truly happy is a man who has an idée fixe. It takes up his every minute, fills any empty spaces in his thought, sneaks unexpected pleasures into his boredom, gives direction to his idle hours, again and again enlivens the stagnant waters of existence with a surging current.”
Source: The Bells of Bruges
“The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.”
Source: Plays by Susan Glaspell
“The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.”
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
“The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.”
“The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.”
“The only man worth having in your life is one that would never let you walk away.”
“The only man you should marry is the moon, she said, so you can divorce it every morning.”
Source: Bestiary
“The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning.”
Source: Bestiary
“The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup.”
“The only man, woman, or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors "is dead."”
“The only manner to blunt in a wholesome and righteous manner the emotional trauma of living under a death sentence is by making every day count, living passionately, and dedicating the journey stumbling through time to accomplishing a master life plan. We can assist each other find meaning in life and undertake a path that make every person’s life a worthy endeavor, but each person bears the personal responsibility for living their life, establishing who they are, and behaving in a manner that provides credence to their self-imposed ideology. If a person persists in shifting personal responsibility for their way of life onto someone else, they he or she fails to discover the meaning of his own existence.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.”
“The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and intolerance - and to deprive people of their equal civil rights.”
Source: Bugspray
“The only marketers who know what the hell they're doing are those who have worked in sales”
“The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'”
“The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone and in silence-you have to stand on the naked earth, naked yourself and with nothing around you, as if you were already dead. You don't hear anything at first; the only thing you feel is terror, but then you begin to hear a voice, away in the background, far off; it's a calm voice, and maybe its banality gets on your nerves to begin with.”
“The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.”
“The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.”
Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life
“The only meaning we might have left as a species--indeed, the only thing left that might matter, that might keep us motivated to get up in the morning--is in the small acts of human kindness we show one another, and in my compulsion to be helpful, useful, to keep things moving forward, I've mostly forgotten to be kind.”
Source: The Last
“The only meaningful contact is one that involves a genuine, giving personal interaction. You may want another person to help you in business, but you must also be willing to help him and to spend time getting to know his interests and needs... It has to be real and heartfelt, or it's best not to try to establish the relationship at all.”
Source: Yes, You Can: How to Succeed in Business and Life
“The only meaningful statistic is number of games won.”
“The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.”
“The only meaningful way to conceive of truth implies that truth is internal, not external.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life”
Source: The Prophet of Zongo Street: Unforgettable West African Stories of Folklore, Myth, and Modernity
“The only means for averting the divine chastisement that takes the shape of warfare is, however, repentance from moral and spiritual evildoing; the peace movements of the West would therefore be well advised to direct their activities towards fostering respect for the human life created at conception in the womb, for God's law with respect to marital and family life and the ordering of human affairs in general, and above all for the true religion revealed in the Sacred Scriptures.”
Source: Eschatology
“The only means of “changing” men is the same as the means of “changing” nature: knowledge - which, in regard to men, is to be used as a process of persuasion, when and if their minds are active; when they are not, one must leave them to the consequences of their own errors”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.”
Source: Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...
“The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.”
“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
“The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.”
Source: Planned Chaos
“The only measure for being alive is kindness.”
Source: Saint of The Sapiens