T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.”
Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson
“The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.”
“The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.”
“The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.”
Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
“The Puritans thought that we are granted the ability to love
only through miracle,
but the troubadours knew how to burn themselves through,
how to make themselves shrines to their own longing.
The spectacular was never behind them.”
Source: Incarnadine: Poems
“The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality - which became America's - was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.”
“The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.”
Source: All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ
“The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.”
Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
“The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.”
Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
“The purity of a language dispossesses it of its wealth; a correctness that is all too rigid takes away its strengh and manhood. In a city as big as Paris, forty learned men are procured each year, at no expense, who infalliably know what is pure and polite in their mother tongue and what is neccessary for the monopoly of this junkshop.”
Source: Writings on Philosophy and Language
“The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals”
“The purity of emotions rarefies one’s soul to surface onto the face to enable the fusion of the inner beauty with the outer grace to get imprinted in the minds of those who espy that visage.”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“The purity of intention repels fear.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.”
Source: By Myself and Then Some
“The purity of joy is better than the pleasure of happiness.”
“The purity of love should not be measured by how much we miss or dream of someone but by how big is the urge for togetherness and what lengths are we willing to go for them.”
“The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.”
“The purity of prayer!”
“The purity of prayer is power.”
“The purity of sound that Cisco Music and Bernie Grundman have achieved with this 45rpm version of Famous Blue Raincoat 20th Anniversary Edition is shockingly perfect. I have never heard any version of Famous Blue Raincoat which sounds better... and I've heard them all. No caveats: This LP set is unbelievably gorgeous. I have been waiting two decades to hear it like this. Cisco's 45rpm edition is simply as good as Famous Blue Raincoat gets.”
“The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.”
Source: Essays and Reviews
“The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind.”
“The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“The purple light or glow, which appears roughly fifteen or twenty minutes after sunset... looks like an isolated bright spot fairly high in the sky over the place the sun has set, and then it quickly expands and sinks until it blends with the colors underneath.”
“The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.”
“The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.”
“The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.”
“The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands, and, as far as possible, of all other means of creating wealth; and thus to keep the great body of labourers in such a state of poverty and dependence, as would compel them to sell their labour to their tyrants for the lowest prices at which life could be sustained”
“The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The purpose and meaning are found in constant transformations and creation of multitudes, allowing the ultimate oneness, singularity, to breathe and live through dispersion into the nothingness that the Source swallows.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.”
“The purpose behind why one exists is the fundamental reason to justify one’s length of life. So, the higher one’s life-purpose, the more one may be able to extend one’s lifespan in service to that purpose.”
Source: Higher Science of Longevity
“The purpose behind your aggravating persistence eludes me, sirrah. What is it exactly that you wish to know? Lord Lucien is a fine, noble gentleman – ”
“Who loves you to the point of distraction and cannot bear to think of a prolonged separation.”
“A noble gentleman,” she reiterated furiously, “who – ”
“Who wants something you have, and is willing to sacrifice his much prized freedom to get it.”
She flushed hotly. “There may have been some consideration given to the dowry, but – ”
“My lady,” the rogue laughed outright. “You are far too modest. With what you bring into the marriage you will turn Lincoln into his small, private domain. A kingdom, if you will, with a dragon on the throne and a nest of serpents writhing at his feet, eager to do his bidding.”
Source: Through a Dark Mist
“The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey”
“The purpose creates the machine.”
“The ‘purpose’ element of onboarding is where you begin to lay the foundation of success for your new team member.”
Source: How to Hire and Keep Great People
“The purpose exceeds the pain.”
“The purpose firm is equal to the deed”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people.”
“The purpose in life creates a bridge between you and your desired destination.”
Source: The Algorithm of Life: The Code to Choose Your Destiny
“The purpose in life is not just to work a
good-paying job but actually have
meaning and purpose to what you're doing
with your life
and deep inside the heart of every
American is the love honor courage and ideals that form the foundation of this country.
Love is not just a feeling
its a powerful force that drives us to act
there is no force more powerful than love
we must stand up and we must fight for
the soul of our culture We Have No Time to Waste.”
“The purpose in our pain will always exceed the amount of pain that was necessary to deliver that purpose to us.”
“The purpose is an answer to your each why, source of your every action, your indomitable will to pursue, a path to inner peace and fulfillment.”
“The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
“The purpose is growth. The purpose is change. The purpose is to move you into action and mature you as a believer so you will grow in your relationship with God.”
Source: GROW: A COACH APPROACH TO CHRISTIAN GROWTH
“The purpose is not that you might get more of the Holy Spirit, but that the Holy Spirit might get more of you.”
“The purpose is so important that for it someone must sacrifice more than their life - they must sacrifice their honour and their good name. Are you ready for such a sacrifice?”
Source: Why He Betrayed Jesus
“The Purpose is the Source of the Source.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The purpose is to become the best writer in my category (yes, page for page and pound for pound).”
“The purpose is to get across; change horses mid-stream if necessary.”