T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.”
“The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.”
“The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.”
“The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white bricklayers, and white painters will not work side by side with the blacks in the North but do it in almost every Southern State.”
“The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or any worldly motive, profess or pretend to believe what they do not believe, nor can give any reason for believing, they unship the helm of their morality, and being no longer honest to their own minds they feel no moral difficulty in being unjust to others.”
Source: The Age of Reason, etc
“The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.”
“The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.”
“The prejudiced are easily manipulated.”
“The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.”
“The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.”
“The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.”
“The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.”
“The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator
“The Premier club in the Premier League - that is Manchester United!”
“The Premier League is the No1 league in the world in many areas. The events, the shocks, the production, the viewing figures, the worldwide audience are by far the best. Do I think at this moment in time it's got the highest quality levels in Europe in terms of Champions League football and domination of that area? In quality terms it needs to rise again to get to that point where it's by far the best in all areas.”
“The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.”
“The premiere was as exciting as the 1938 boxing match between Max Schmeling and Joe Lewis.”
Source: Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
“The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.”
“The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.”
“The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.”
“The premise of accepting a job at an investment bank is the understanding that you are "rewarded" for the risk of taking on a job that is not a career but rather a "financial relationship" where you must be worth more than what you are being paid today.”
Source: Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
“The Premise of Glucose Control Eating©
You control the amount of glucose you put into your bloodstream. Put in less glucose, your body will produce less insulin, and you will lose weight. Put in more glucose, your body will produce more insulin, and you will gain weight. That brings us to the premise of this book.
Control your glucose, and you control your weight.
How do you control your glucose and your weight?
How can you know which foods create lots of glucose and weight gain and which create less glucose and weight loss?
In the book, Glucose Control Eating©, I will not only tell you, but I will also show you, based on over 85,000 blood glucose tests, how much glucose different foods will create in your body.”
Source: Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
“The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set our own limitations, and those are no limitations.”
“The premise of most media is that only conflict is newsworthy. And that's just not true. I think for a lot of men, too - certainly for most women - there's enough real conflict without manufacturing it. The media formula is always to have a pro and con, to say there are two sides to any issue, when in fact there may be ten sides.”
“The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.”
“The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what I have done in the state of Nevada, I have voted over a 100 times against tax and fee increases, poor public policy, and unconstitutional bills.”
“The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.”
Source: Ishmael: A Novel
“The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.”
“The premise of tonglen is, at a very basic level, to breathe in suffering and breathe out joy.”
Source: A Little Bit of Meditation: An Introduction to Focus
“The premise that America’s power and influence was rooted in its wealth was wrong to begin with. To the contrary, our strength comes from America’s magical stuff. It is something intangible, something invulnerable, something no measure of evil, no amount of violence or bloodshed can destroy.”
Source: Turn Right at Lost: Recalculating America
“The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.”
“The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see it. So I write down the problem as I see it. That is the premise for my book.”
“The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.”
“The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.”
Source: Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield employed as a means of reading made easy without any alteration of orthography ... By Charles Theodor von Kersten
“The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.”
“The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.”
Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education
“The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.”
Source: Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered
“The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.”
“The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.”
“The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.”
“The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.”
“The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.”
“The preoccupations of young women-their looks, their clothes, their social life-don't seem to change much from generation to generation. But in every generation there are a few that make others choices.”
“The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species.”
“The preparation for something worse is typically the very thing that makes it exactly that.”
“The preparation for the ritual is the ritual.”
Source: Shattered Moon
“The preparation of an illuminated book has always been a very expensive business.”
Source: The illuminated manuscript
“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…”