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, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.”
“The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.”
“The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.”
“The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.”
“The point is,” Caine continued, “you and I share something in common, Sam. We were born just three minutes apart.” Sam felt a tingle go up his spine. “Three minutes,” Caine said, moving closer. “You go first. And then me.” “No,” Sam said. “It can’t be.” “It can,” Caine said. “It is. And you are… brother.”
Source: Gone Series Complete Collection: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, Light
“The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.”
Source: Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008
“The point is... you'd better figure out what your Customers - the Customers you want - value. Because that's what they'll buy. Anything else is a waste of their money, and they'll figure that out in a hurry.”
Source: From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback
“The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.”
“The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.”
“The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.”
“The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.”
“The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.”
“The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.”
“The point of a trellis isn’t to make the vines stand up straight in neat rows, but rather to attain a rich, deep glass of wine. It’s to create space for the vine to grow and bear fruit.”
Source: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
“The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity.”
“The point of advertising is to destroy markets.”
“The point of all this is to be able to spend more time at the beach!”
“The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.”
“The point of art is not to give you what you already feel comfortable with; that’s reporting, not art, that TV, not art, that’s magaziney art, not art. Art gives you so personal an interpretation that it compels you to say, “This here is more real than what I know is really out there.”
“The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.”
“The point of art is to inspire you to create your own.”
“The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture.”
“The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.”
Source: The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens
“The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.”
“The point of being in a band, for instance, isn't to get big; it's about enjoying playing shows.”
“The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.”
“The point of Berlin was that it seemed that only people like you ran the city. You never ran into people who weren't like you - especially when you lived as that kind of American in Berlin connected to the arts.”
“The point of books is to combat loneliness.”
“The point of books was to combat loneliness”
Source: Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
“The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.”
“The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.”
Source: Dream of Scipio
“The point, of course, is that the people who spent days and sweated buckets could also have taken an aircraft to the summit if all they’d wanted was to absorb the view. It is the struggle that they crave. The sense of achievement is produced by the route to and from the peak, not by the peak itself. It is just the fold between the pages.” The avatar hesitated. It put its head a little to one side and narrowed its eyes. “How far do I have to take this analogy, Cr. Ziller?”.”
Source: Look To Windward
“The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.”
“The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.”
“The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.”
“The point of departure is a lack of
explanations.”
Source: Behind the Hospital
“The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.”
“The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.”
Source: Addresses on International Subjects
“The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about themselves. They did not want the content of her ideas; they merely wanted the gesture of her presence. They had not read her blog but they had heard that she was a “leading blogger” about race.”
Source: Americanah
“The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.”
“the point of educating instead of blaming seems to me very important. For nothing stultifies one more than being blamed. Moreover, if the question is, who is to blame?, perhaps each will want to place the blame on someone else, or on the other hand, someone may try to shield his fellow-worker. In either case the attempt is to hide the error and if this is done the error cannot be corrected.”
Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s
“The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.”
“The point of existence is not to find the most powerful thing you can imagine and then grovel before it.”
“The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.”
Source: The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
“The point of Facebook isn't the features, it's the people.”
“The point of fact is, just in simple ways, you can see how much better things have gotten. I mean, when I was a child, I lived in England, and England was just amazingly polluted. We didn't use that word. We just said it was it all covered with soot.”
“The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.”
“the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.”
Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women
“The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.”
Source: TransAtlantic: A Novel