T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.”
Source: The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: The new democracy; presidential messages, addresses, and other papers (1913-1917)
“The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.”
Source: Aims of Education
“The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.”
Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
“The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman?”
“The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.”
“The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial and error, by selling real products to real people who pay real money.”
Source: Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)
“The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.”
“The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.”
“The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it”
“The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect the scene he is trying to dramatize enough to fashion it through precise prose and imaginative imagery. From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction by”
“The only valid starting point is to understand what we all share - we have to find what we can all agree on.”
“The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.”
“The only valid voice of one's reputation is that spoken by one's conscience.”
“The only validation we need comes from within; whatever our souls allow is allowed.”
“The only valuable acknowledgement is the acknowledgement you grant yourself.”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“The only valuable things about the past are the cherished memories and the lessons we’ve learned”
“The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.”
“The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.”
“The only value of wasted time is knowledge.”
Source: Clown Girl: A Novel
“The only value that truly matters is the one you give yourself. - The Mother of All Values”
Source: Awakening
“The only vampires I've ever seen are the Goths trying to get a glimpse of Anne Rice's house, who drink strawberry sodas and tell each other it's blood.”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.”
“The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.”
“The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
“The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by God and in love with God.”
Source: William Barclay: A Spiritual Autobiography
“The only victory over love is flight.”
“The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.”
Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography
“The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.”
“The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.”
“The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.”
Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews
“The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.”
“The only vision (many) of you have is television.”
“The only voice of dissent you have to dispel is your own.”
“The only vulnerable place in our armor is where we ourselves leave it exposed, because God has armed us at all points. He has made us impervious to outside attacks. But when we boil inside, destruction waits upon us.”
“The only walk of life where you can rightfully chill and run.Celebrate childhood!! Happy Childrens Day!!”
“The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“The only walls that talk, are the white ones.”
“The only walls which bind us and stop us achieving our hearts desires are the walls we build for ourselves”
“The only war is the war against the imagination.”
“THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST
THE IMAGINATION
THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST
THE IMAGINATION
THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST
THE IMAGINATION
ALL OTHER WARS ARE SUBSUMED IN IT”
Source: Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
“The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.”
“The only was to power for woman is sorcery. Medea, Calypso, now there were powerful woman! And me, of course. The greatest of all.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused.”
“The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.”
“The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.”
“The only water in the forest is the River.”
“The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, truly sacrifice it. Only then may the book, the real live flawed finite book, slowly, sentence by carnal sentence, appear.”
“The only way a church is going to be relevant is to get out of its comfort zone and connect with unchurched people.”