T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.”
Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel
“The people who kill your children are the people who’s children were playing with your children yesterday. That’s one of the most mysterious things about the 'flip' into hatred. You don’t hate the people who are strangers to you because that creates a kind of indifference; you hate the people who live next door… It’s a curious thing that love and hate are so closely tied together that just a flip of the coin can flip one into the other.”
“The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.”
“The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.”
“The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.”
“The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.”
“The people who know me, the people who see the passion I have for this game and the respect for it, they know that I don't cut any corners in the way I approach golf.”
“The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.”
“The people who know the sort of personality or persona that I give across more on Twitter just realize that I'm just being messy and I'm just snatching wigs.”
“The people who leave the planet during the time of Earth changes do not fit in here
any longer, and they are stopping the harmony of Earth. When the time comes
that perhaps 20 million people leave the planet at one time there will be
a tremendous shift in consciousness for those who are remaining.”
“The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.”
Source: Novels
“The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That, of course, didn't work at all. Your taste in rock 'n' roll does not say anything about you, morally or otherwise.”
“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.”
Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables
“the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent the best of who we are and the finest standard of what we are meant to become. This is the power that last places hold over me, and why I have found it impossible to resist their pull.”
Source: Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.”
Source: Modern Plays ...
“The people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace.”
“The people who live the life of their dreams know that it's not about how much money they have, but how much passion, willingness and dedication they have to make their dreams come true. And on top of that they know that no one defines what's true for them except them. And on top of that they know that Plan B is not an option, because it's a distraction from Plan A. And on top of that they just don't give up because that is who the hell they are!”
“The people who live the life of their dreams take risks. And on top of that, they persist. And on top of that, they trust themselves. And on top of that, they don't let circumstances hold them back, because they know that they are more powerful than their circumstances.”
“The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.”
“The people who lived here hated it so much that they had burned down a lot of it a month before. It was all they had, and they'd wrecked it.”
Source: Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade
“The people who lost the elections do not want to admit that they really lost, that the one who won was closer to the people and better understood what ordinary voters want. They are absolutely reluctant to admit this, and prefer deluding themselves and others into thinking it was not their fault, that their policy was correct, they did all the right things, but someone from the outside thwarted them. But it was not so. They just lost and they have to admit it.”
“the people who love me, the people I really depend on, were never the critics who were pointing at me while I stumbled. They weren’t in the bleachers at all. They were with me in the arena. Fighting for me and with me. . . . it’s a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands. The people who love me and will be there regardless of the outcome are within arm’s reach.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.”
“The people who love you never stop loving you, don't you know," she said solemnly. "Never -- not even after they're gone".”
Source: The Lost Children of Gloam's End
“The people who love you will guide you like bright lights into the other worlds.”
Source: Trial by Fire
“The people who love you will offer you constructive criticism, because they want you to be the best version of yourself that you can be. They know you’re better than that. They know what you’re worth. They’re not having a pop because they want to bring you down a peg or two.”
Source: Zero Negativity: The Power of Positive Thinking
“The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.”
“The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.”
Source: Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal
“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.”
“The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.”
Source: Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
“The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.”
“The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.”
“The people who make the greatest wines in the world, they love their dirt, they pick it up, they coddle it, they kiss it, they put it in a jar and it sits on their mantle in the living room, because they know. They know.”
“The people who make the world sick prevent those who heal it.”
“The people who make wars, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word- these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.”
Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
“The people who make you cry are the people who aren't worth crying over.”
“The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes with us.”
Source: All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost: A Novel
“The people who matter will recognize who you are.”
“the people who mostly get angry on you mostly love you”
“The people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take place between them, conversations, surprises, caresses, bites. But no one greets anyone; eyes lock for a second, then dart away, seeking other eyes, never stopping...something runs among them, an exchange of glances like lines that connect one figure with another and draw arrows, stars, triangles, until all combinations are used up in a moment, and other characters come on to the scene.”
“The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity”
Source: Arguably
“The people who need help, run and get help. They don't remember where they get the help. If the devil wants to reach the top, then the devil trying to use God to reach the top. 'Cause the devil have no creation. The devil can't copy.”
“The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.”
“The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.”
“The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously not desperate and poor refugee dwellers. They were middle class, educated enough to speak English, to be able to go to flight school, to come to America, to live in Florida.”
“The people who pray together build together a better world”
“The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.”
“The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.”
“The people who put limits on your abilities, goals, or dreams, may not be the people you want to associate yourself with.”