T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The point is to be free, not to be crazy.”
“The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.”
“The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.”
“The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants in entering the next stage of evolutionary progression.”
Source: Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul's Potential
“The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.”
Source: A Simple Path-Open Market
“The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.”
“The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.”
Source: The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
“The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.”
Source: The Volcano Lover
“The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.”
Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.”
“The point is to live everything.”
Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
“The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.”
“The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.”
“The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.”
Source: I'm Not Stiller
“The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.”
“The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.”
Source: Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories
“The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.”
“The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.”
Source: DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
“The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.”
“The point is to work with the ingredients, treat them right, cook with love, and create something you and everyone else wants to eat right that minute. Have fun!”
Source: Downtown Italian: Recipes Inspired by Italy, Created in New York's West Village
“The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.”
Source: Hell's Angels
“The point is: what happens in heaven?'
'Unknowable wonderfulness?'
'Nonsense. The answer is nothing. Nothing can happen because if something happens, in fact if something can happen, then it doesn't represent eternity. Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change.'
'If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances - and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse - then you don't have life after death; you just have death.”
Source: Look To Windward
“The point is, whether or not they show it at dinner parties, writers learn, by a necessity of their trade, to be the sharpest of observers.”
“The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.”
“The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.”
Source: About a Boy
“The point is, you shouldn't compare relationships, okay?" Never mind the fact that I've been doing that constantly in my head.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“The point is, you won't necessarily know
Whether you're living a science fiction reality.”
Source: Duende
“The point is," Ziller said, "that having carefully constructed their paradise from first principles to remove all credible motives for conflict amongst themselves and all natural threats—" He paused and glanced sourly at the sunlight flaring off the gilt border of his seat. "—Well, almost all natural threats, these people then find their lives are so hollow they have to recreate false versions of just the sort of terrors untold generations of their ancestors spent their existences attempting to conquer."
"I think that is a little like criticizing somebody for owning both an umbrella and a shower," Kabe said. "It is the choice that is important." [...] "These people control their terrors. They can choose to sample them, repeat them or avoid them. That is not the same as living beneath a volcano when you've just invented the wheel, or wondering whether your levee will break and drown your entire village. Again, this applies to all societies which have matured beyond the age of barbarism. There is no great mystery here."
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"I think it is only natural, a sign that one has succeeded as a species, that what used to have to be suffered as a necessity becomes enjoyed as sport. Even fear can be recreational.”
Source: Look To Windward
“The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?”
“The point is, folks, for people on the left - and I don't care what kind of clothes they wear, or where they live, people on the left, America is guilty. And there is not a set of facts in the world that's gonna change it. There's not a set of facts in the world that's gonna change anybody's mind.”
“The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.”
“The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]—in the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won’t take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead.”
“The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.”
“The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.”
“The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.”
Source: MY COUSIN RACHEL
“The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility.”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.”
“The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.”
“The point is, Sin is now going to try to overthrow me again and take my place. Do you know what that means? (Artemis) There will be much rejoicing? (Kat)”
Source: Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.”
“The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?”
“The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.”
“The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.”
“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others”
“The point is, there's this new sense of skepticism and questioning toward tech, even if it is pretty inchoate. What I hope the book helps to do is help people clarify what is amiss, by presenting a critique that is grounded in economics.”
“The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.”
“The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not that we're terrible addicts who need to go to an AA meeting and get off our gadgets.”
“The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.”