T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.”
“The problem with cell phones is that you can’t slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It’s not satisfying at all. I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.”
Source: Black Heart
“The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks.”
“The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.”
“The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.”
Source: Rainshadow Road
“The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows?”
“The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.”
Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks
“The problem with choosing between the lesser of two evils is that evil always wins.”
“The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard.”
“The problem with Christians is they aren't as good as Jesus. But thank God most Muslims are better than Muhammad.”
“The problem with Christians today is that no one wants to kill them anymore.”
“The problem with churches of all sorts,” he continued, “is that so often they ignore the key teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, like the doctrine of love. So often we ask God to be on our side instead of asking that we be blessed enough to be on his. That said, the wheat and the tares must grow up together, and in the days of harvest they will be separated properly.”
Source: Angelos
“The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes or that comes; in about 30 minutes, it's going to be over and have an ending. So film has become a mathematical solution. And that is boring, because art is not mathematical.”
“The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and inseparable dimensions of all experience - the awareness of the experiencing organism and the stable entities and structures it encounters - and erects them as separate and distinct entities called subjects and objects. What disembodied realism ... misses is that, as embodied, imaginative creatures, we never were separated or divorced from reality in the first place. What has always made science possible is our embodiment, not our transcendence of it, and our imagination, not our avoidance of it.”
Source: Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
“The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.”
“The problem with collecting other people's junk is you just don't know what to do with it when you don't want it anymore. You feel bad about throwing it to the curb. It's too much trouble to sell. So you keep it around, knowing if you can't redeem it, exactly, you've at least rescued it. Somewhat.”
Source: A Thing of Beauty
“The problem with college students is that they come into university not knowing what they love, but are handed vocabulary and concepts about their chosen passion, which equips them with rich arguments and rich words that end up fooling people they love something when they are really just passionate about someone else’s passion. Sometimes, people use knowledge as a seat belt to strap themselves in a car that they weren’t supposed to be in. They hold onto mission statements or causes and regurgitate ideas with such great articulation that you (and they) could almost believe they really loved their careers.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.”
“The problem with coming through something terrible and big is that afterward, you're left feeling all the feelings that you shoved down and pushed away. For many long days, I have been terrified, and now, when I ought to be feeling great, what I want to do is hide under a table in the brugh with Cardan until I can finally convince myself he's all right.
And maybe make out with his face, if he's feeling up to that.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity itself isn't going to do anything for you....it is an entirely different game to buy a lump of something and hope that somebody else pays you more for that lump two years from now than it is to buy something that you expect to produce income for you over time.”
“The problem with common sense is, it isn't.”
“The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.”
“The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.”
“The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.”
“The problem with compromising your principles is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
Source: Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others
“The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.”
“The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.”
“The problem with cooking meat this way [open fire] is that even if it does not burn, the valuable and tasty juices drip away and the meat dries and shrinks. Other cooks at other times got around this problem by wrapping the meat up to protect it - in leaves, for example. Or clay. Clay that, to another cook in perhaps, another time and place, felt just like dough. This last inspired step created the primitive meat pie - something medieval cooks called a 'bake-mete'.”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.”
“The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.”
“The problem with creations is that they’ll never understand their true value. It’s the same with parents and children. The mother knows her daughter is important but she does not voice this fact. So the daughter will constantly wonder what her worth is. She will forever look to the mother for reassurance. The mother thinks the daughter is clingy. The daughter thinks the mother is cold. The truth is that they don’t communicate with one another. They just assume. And so they assume themselves into resentment. Where they never speak. They never listen. They die wondering why what they gave was never enough. Thankfully this is easily fixed. All that is required is an open mind and a little patience. But who the hell’s got time for that?”
Source: Goodbye, Mr. Nothing
“The problem with criticism today is that is instant, constant, global and permanent.”
“The problem with dating a model is they won't go out with you if your cars color doesn't match their outfit.”
“The problem with death is absence”
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
“The problem with democracy is that it is the 51% determining what only the 0.1% can understand.”
“The problem with denying the problem is that it also denies the solution.”
Source: Stardust Family - We Are One!
“The problem with depicting abusers as full-time monsters is that when a person is actually experiencing abuse in their own life, they'll think "oh but he's the sweetest guy most of the time so he can't be an abuser " or "but he's not ALWAYS horrible, he's usually amazing, so he's not an abuser", and they'll make the mistake of thinking they mustn't really be being abused when they actually are.”
“The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.”
“The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment, captive to impression, and nursed on action, not talk. It must be maintained hourly and can erode or be lost with a single act of failed nerve, despite all the braggadocio of threatened measures. And, once gone, the remedies needed for its restoration are always more expensive, deadly - and controversial - than would have been its simple maintenance.”
“The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.”
“The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.”
“The problem with dirty secrets is they have a tendency to haunt you in the future.”
“The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.”
“The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing that once I kicked my coke habit.”
“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.”
“The problem with doing the right thing,” Donovan continues, his expression intense and his voice low, “Doing right and playing by the rules only works if everyone does it”
Source: Free Spirit
“The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them. The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your very eyes.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The problem with drugs is that most of the people that use the drugs, use it as a license to be an asshole.”