T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.”
“The passion for comfort kills passion.”
“The passion for destruction is also a creative passion”
“The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.”
“The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century”
“The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.”
Source: The humanist in the bathtub
“The passion for money is never fickle.”
“The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.”
Source: The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency
“The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, involves a
certain danger. Although it aims to correct our behaviour
and wipe out our vices, it may—through not being handled
properly—end up merely encouraging us to carry on in
directions that we’re already naturally inclined to follow.”
“The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)
“The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.”
“The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.”
Source: Lectures on Modern History: Great Event
“The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.”
Source: The spectator
“The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.”
“The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.”
Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924
“The passion for sneakers has been there since day one, but I never held onto them. I never shrunkwrap them. It's always been about getting it, buying it, wearing it, showing it and moving on to the next one.”
“The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.”
Source: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
“The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love your characters into existence.”
“The passion for the touch of another person. "Comes from a place where the imagination is left to it’s own.”
“The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.”
“The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most formidable obstacles; and, without means or friends, and even ignorant of the languages of the various countries through which they passed, pursue their perilous journeys into remote places, until, like the knight in the Arabian tale, they succeeded in snatching a memorial from every shrine they visited.”
Source: A Voyage Round the World: Volume I, Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832
“The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.”
Source: The New Being
“The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.”
“The passion I have for what could be viewed as a futile pursuit has made me strong, and it is this that gives me the confidence required to lead a self-determined life.”
Source: My Life at the Limit
“The passion is in her walk and magical secrets in her beautiful eyes transfixed for days ..”
“The passion is in her writing and magical secrets of her beautiful thought transfixed for days ...”
“The passion is my favorite part of the city [Philadelphia]. You go from 'we love you' to 'we hate you' back to 'you walk on water.' You're driving, and somebody might wave or somebody might flip you off.”
“The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.”
“The Passion of Christ is the greatest and most stupendous work of Divine Love. The greatest and most overwhelming work of God's love.”
“The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may say this with reverence, the fourteen incidents of the Stations of the Cross show not only the suffering but the Psychology of Christ. Above all, they show, in detail, his way of transforming suffering by love. He shows us, step by step, how that plan of love can be carried out by men, women, and children today, both alone in the loneliness of their individual lives and together in communion with one another.”
“The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way.”
“The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.”
“The passion of Jesus is a sea of sorrows, but it is also an ocean of love. Ask the Lord to teach you to fish in this ocean. Dive into its depths. No matter how deep you go, you will never reach the bottom.”
“The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.”
“The passion of one man will always outrun the intellect of a thousand others.”
“The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.”
“The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“The passion of steeped leaves and stewed broth is a philter that triumphs in our veins. It is our heritage, it is our religion, it is the glory of our being. It is our honour to show the rest of the uncivilized world how a refined and educated society operates. Nothing can be done without tea. For a thing to be done right and to be done well, a hand must be furnished with a cup filled to the brim with the finest vintage of dried and simmered vegetation. There is no other way, I tell you. For a Marridon-born man not to like tea is immoral. It makes him low, shows him to be wholly vulgar and unable to appreciate and welter in all the rapture that such scandal-broth can supply. A sniveling guttersnipe might not like tea, but a knight, a member of the highest order, a banner of Marridonian heraldry, cannot dislike it. It is folly to think so, absolute humbuggery. You are one of the high boughs of Marridon’s ancient tree, sir knight. You are practically born with leaves to steep, to stew, to swelter, to sip. It is almost treasonous not to like tea. I am considered a recluse amongst Marridon’s high society, and even I understand why I must like tea. It is the drink of the thinking man, to be deliberated over and deliciated, to be relished and reveled in, that all its secrets of higher cogitation might be extricated and beloved. One must immerse himself in the distillation if he is to properly understand it. To drink tea ponderously is all the learned Marridonian should ever aspire to.”
“The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.”
“The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.”
“The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.”
Source: The cat jumps, and other stories
“The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.”
Source: Fanny
“The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.”
“The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same.”
“The passion to condense from book to book
Unbroken wisdom in a single look,
Though we know well that when this fix the head,
The mind's immortal, but the man is dead.”
Source: The collected poems of Yvor Winters
“The passion to create a forest is encased in the seeds that the tree casts from its branches.”
“The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.”
“The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.”