T Quotes
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“The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.”
Source: Messiah’s Handbook
“The only thing that she wants to do is keep moving forward. The only thing that she’s afraid of is standing still. That’s what the dead do.
Perhaps there’s another reason behind her fear of inaction, though she tries not to think about it. Inaction drove her and Robert apart. She is making up for saying no at the wrong moment by always saying yes.”
Source: When the Music Stops
“The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone past Andy Warhol and all those clever, arty and witty things that were done and said in the sixties...the fifteen minutes, and so on. Now your celebrities don't have to do anything, they're just voted in. And that shocks me.”
“The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.”
“The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.”
“The only thing that someone could say about me that would hurt me would be something that's true that I don't want to be.”
“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”
“The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.”
“The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting!”
Source: Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!
“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.”
“The only thing that stays the same is change.”
“The only thing that stays the same is that everything changes”
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.”
“The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.”
“The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.”
Source: What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
“The only thing that survives is love, for it is an energy as enduring as light, which travels outward from its source toward the ever-expanding boundaries.”
“The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“The only thing that takes away from it is when they steal some music from one of my movies and put it in a TV commercial. I am not crazy about influencing TV commercials. But if I legitimately influence someone making a movie, I think that is really flattering.”
“The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.”
“The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.”
“The only thing that this uproar does is give aid and comfort to the enemy and I don't think there's anybody who wants to give aid and comfort to the terrorists.”
“The only thing that troubled me more than being a mystery was the realization that I was also the one who had to solve it.”
“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.”
“The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is, survives him. It can never be buried.”
“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me. I quit spending my life trying to control myself and began to trust myself. We only control what we don't trust.”
Source: Untamed
“The only thing that was on my mind was, 'I want to play for India one day,' and I was pretty sure and confident that one day I will.”
“The only thing that was sharper and that scarred more was the selfish actions of those you loved when they made it crystal clear that they cared more for themselves than they did for you. Especially when it was someone you trusted to always put you first.”
“The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth.”
“The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.”
“The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.”
Source: The portable Edmund Wilson
“The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.”
“The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.”
“The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong”
Source: Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
“The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history”
“The only thing that we will ever truly know is ourselves; our personal being is our finest creation.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield”
“The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.”
“The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“The only thing that will ever make me fall in love is: if I fall in love.”
“The only thing that will help us move past the giant of rejection is to immerse ourselves in the acceptance of Christ.”
Source: Goliath Must Fall: Winning the Battle Against Your Giants
“The only thing that will keep you from finding that which you seek is calling off the search.”
“The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.”
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.”
“The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.”
“The only thing that will really matter at the end of your life is: Did you love completely?”
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others.”
Source: Man's Peril, 1954-55
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”
Source: Man's Peril, 1954-55
“The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a pressure cooker bomb is a good guy with a slightly larger pressure cooker bomb.”