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 drugs is that people forget to stop doing them. There’s a time and a place for everything, Mr. Mackey, and it’s called college.”
“The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.”
“The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.”
Source: Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
“The problem with education is school.”
“The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it, either. Government office should be received like a child’s Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.”
Source: Empire
“The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.”
“The problem with emotional people is that treat them good even a little bit and they will trust you all over again.”
“The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say.”
“The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign.”
“The problem with every judgment of sexual behavior is that it is made by people who aren't being stimulated as they are making the judgment. A jury that sees a woman in a sterile courtroom, asks her what she wanted, and then assumes that anything else she did was the responsibility of the man is insulting not only the woman but the power of sex.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.”
“The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.”
“The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.”
“The problem with experiments is that they tell you nothing unless they are competently done, but in controversial science no-one can agree on a criterion of competence.”
Source: The Golem: What You Should Know about Science
“The problem with fairytales is that most of them begin with tragedy.”
Source: Cinder & Ella
“The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.”
Source: Tilt
“The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.”
“The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.”
Source: When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
“The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.”
“The problem with fear-mongering people is that if they are not listened to, they will go out of their way to prove their point. They might start regimes, coups, riots, protests, or plot, fabricate, sabotage, tamper, peddle, lie, spread misinformation, kill, and destabilize. They would commit crimes, murder, treason, terrorism, and espionage to prove that if you had listened to them, what they did would not have happened. They will go to great lengths to try to turn their lies into the truth.”
“The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.”
“The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.”
“The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.”
“The problem with film is you never know when you're going to be able to make a film so you can't have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it's fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up.”
“The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you can't go back. So they're going to keep nattering on about this and that, and maybe they'll make another stab at de-funding the fabulous Planned Parenthood or something of the sort. To my mind, it's just not going to work.”
“The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all.”
“The problem with Gen Z is that they’ve set up this moral standard that they can’t even live up to! They’re starting to realise that as they’re getting into their mid-20s. When you’re an idealistic 18 or 19-year-old, sure! But you will make mistakes, you will hurt people, you will do things that some people will perceive as rotten. It’s this standard that I’m trying to break down. I’m just a bloke, so are you. No one’s fooling anybody.”
“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.”
Source: We Should All Be Feminists
“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.”
“The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.”
“The problem with getting away with doing bad or wrong things is that you become accustomed to it and addicted to it until bad things start happening to you. You might wrong the wrong people or do bad things to bad people, and then they will make you pay.”
“The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you're not prepared for disappointment when it comes.”
Source: My Soul to Take
“The problem with getting old and sick is that you learn that government systems that you thought would protect you actually fail you.”
“The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.”
“The problem with giving your heart away to someone is that you never fully get it back. Long after you've fallen out of love with them, they still own a little piece of you. That's why first love is always the strongest: it's the only time you ever love wholeheartedly.”
Source: The Last Piece of My Heart
“The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“The problem with golf is I have to deal with a humiliation factor.”
“The problem with good looking women, they always expect a bit more than you’ve got to give them.”
Source: How to Rob the Bank of England: Keith Cheeseman Reveals the True Story of Britain's Biggest Ever Robbery
“The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates £1bn worth of track repairs, medical bills and funeral costs is deemed by this measure as beneficial as an uninterrupted service which generates £1bn in ticket sales.”
“The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.”
Source: Depression
“The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!”
“The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.”
“The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.”
Source: It's Your Kid, Not a Gerbil: Creating a Happier & Less-Stressed Home
“The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.”
“The problem with having a job is that it gets in the way of getting rich.”
“The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.”
“The problem with having evil minions is that minions are stupid.”
“The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.”
Source: Fallout
“The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“The "problem" with health is that people want it, but deliberately and ironically avoid pursuing it adequately -- a question for the centuries on what human rationality can get you at times.”