T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.”
“The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much of a minstrel, and you're— pardon me for saying so lad, but it's true— ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it's love if you ask me.”
Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie
“The only ones who ever went to a Tory conference with good intentions were the IRA.”
Source: Get Out as Early As You Can
“The only ones who fly are the one who dare to fly.”
“The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.”
“The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.”
“The only ones who survive trying times are those who are trying.”
Source: Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light
“The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve”
“The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.”
“The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.”
Source: Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best
“The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it any longer.”
Source: The Interestings: A Novel
“The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.”
“The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.”
“The only option to avoid war is the departure of the number one warmonger in the world US President George W Bush. His policy has brought disaster to the United States. This crazy man should go and also his subject, disciple and follower UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.”
“The only options I have are a four fingered shuffle and an aging vibrator whose batteries, the last time I looked, were leaking a sticky liquid.
I long to do the same.”
Time Was by Paul Adams”
“The only options open for girls then were of course mother, secretary or teacher. At least that's what we all thought and were preparing ourselves for. Now, I must say how lucky we are, as women, to live in an age where 'Dental Hygienist' has been added to the list.”
“The only order in the universe is just a cycle of calm and chaos.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen”
Source: Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World
“The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.”
“The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.”
“The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.”
“The only other complaint I had about Jane's books, cousin-loving aside, was the getting-together part. They were stories of such unconquerable love, such strong feelings. You follow these characters through the ups and downs of an emotional roller coaster, this breathtaking will-they-or-won't -they, and is it too much to ask for a little more time spent on the I-love-you-and-want-to-be-with-you part? It was the very best part, and I wanted to draw it out. I wanted kisses--good, long, passionate ones. Jane never wrote about those.”
Source: First & Then
“The only other job that I've ever had that provided that time in the morning, where you're going to work and you can't wait to get there, and the sun's rising, and you are moving towards something you look forward to, was getting up and doing every day, was being a carpenter.”
“The only other Oshik she’d ever known was her dad’s uncle, an insurance broker from Netanya, and he was eaten by a shark. It was a big story back in the day, and there was an intimidating TV reporter at the shiva, who pounced on Dorit and her older sister, Rotem, demanding to interview them. Rotem told her that Oshik was an angel now, and that they would remember him forever. When the reporter asked Dorit what she would recall about Uncle Oshik in twenty years, Dorit stammered that the thing she would always remember was that a shark had eaten him.”
Source: Autocorrect: Stories
“The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.”
“The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I remember, when I'm bored with Him, and antsy, and sick of brushing my teeth next to the same god every morning, I hope I remember not to leave Him. I am not so worried that He will leave me. The Bible, after all, is full of stories about God sticking with His Bride, no matter how stiff-necked and prideful and unfaithful she may be.”
Source: Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life
“The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia and a crack team of plastic surgeons.”
“The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a chance to go deeply into the characters.”
“The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.”
“The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.”
“The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.”
“The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is the arena, this is where the fight is taking place, the battle. Everybody believes that, but you have to really believe that and work that way.”
“The only other time I've seen Paul cry was when he got hit in the teeth with a cricket bat when he was fourteen. And that time Diana made us watch 'Bambi'.”
Source: Queen of the Night
“The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.”
“The only other woman was Trudie Davenport, the sharp-faced brunette with a da Vinci nose and an actress' high laugh, who even on ten seconds' acquaintance gave off the air of a marble set loose in a bowl - always trying to return herself to the centre of things.”
Source: A Marvellous Light
“The only outcome I foresee with Ukraine is the bulk of their men are going to die in war and Russia is going to take the country at that point.”
“The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.”
“The only pain you carry inside is the love you resist giving,
for there is no greater torment,
than withholding what was meant to be given.”
“The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.”
“The only paradise is paradise lost.”
“The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard me. I was not allowed to be photographed with a cigarette, a drink, a cup of coffee or even a glass of water because someone might think it was liquor. When I left the studio I was already married and had two children, but I felt as sad as a child leaving home for the first time.”
“The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.429”
“The only part I miss about driving is driving. That's it. I don't miss all the other stuff that goes along with it, all the other PR stuff. Anybody, when they quit driving, they miss the driving part.”
“The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.”
“The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.”
“The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.”
“The only part of evolution in which any considerable interest is felt is evolution applied to man. A hypothesis in regard to the rocks and plant life does not affect the philosophy upon which one's life is built. Evolution applied to fish, birds and beasts would not materially affect man's view of his own responsibilities except as the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis as to these would be used to support a similar hypothesis as to man. The evolution that is harmful—distinctly so—is the evolution that destroys man's family tree as taught by the Bible and makes him a descendant of the lower forms of life. This ... is a very vital matter.”
“The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”
“The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.”