T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The readiness is all.”
“The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.”
“The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can remember. What pilot has not been in positions where he was in danger and
where perfect judgment would have advised against going?”
Source: The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh
“The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.”
Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
“The readiness to sacrifice one's personal work and, if necessary, even one's life for others shows its most highly developed form in the Aryan race. The greatness of the Aryan is not based on his intellectual powers; but rather on his willingness to devote all his faculties to the service of his community.”
Source: Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)
“The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“The reading and writing of poetry has helped me navigate some of the most challenging years of my life. It has been both life-saving and life changing for me.”
“The reading break began and those who liked books stopped reading.”
Source: What We Can Know
“The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.”
Source: Ragnarok: the End of the Gods
“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
“The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.”
Source: Collected Poetry and Prose
“The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.”
Source: Discourse on Method and Meditations
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries." – René Descartes”
“The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.”
Source: The works of the learned Isaac Barrow ...
“The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.”
Source: Aforismi. Volume primo.
“The reading of great books has been a life-altering activity to me and, for better or worse, brought me singing and language-obsessed to that country where I make my living. Except for teaching, I’ve had no other ambition in life than to write books that mattered.”
Source: A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.”
“The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it.”
“The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might be plunged into the truths of the Holy Scripture, and that from this he might receive warmth, which in solitude produces tears; from these a man is wholly warmed and is filled with spiritual gifts, which rejoice the mind and heart more than any word.”
“The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.”
Source: Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley
“The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.”
“The reading population of Arizona is small, and the expense of publication great. It is not, therefore, with very bright prospects of pecuniary return that we begin our labors. --Edward E. Cross, "The Weekly Arizonian," March 3, 1859”
Source: Fighting Editors
“The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.”
Source: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959
“The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.”
Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
“The reading-room?"
“Of the British Museum. I go there every day.”
“You do? I've only been there once. I'm afraid I found it rather a depressing place. It—it seemed to sap one's vitality."
"It doe. That's why I go there. The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.”
Source: Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties
“The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.”
“The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins.”
“The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.”
“The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability,' which we now know not to exist.”
“The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.”
“the Reagan years "produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history....The income of families in the bottom decile fell by 10.4 percent...while the income of those in the top one percent rose by 87.1 percent."
Chain Reaction, 23”
“The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is the best way to achieve sustained and broad-based prosperity for all.”
“The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.”
“The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.”
“The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.”
“The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.”
“The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.”
“The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.”
“The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.”
“The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.”
“The Real [is] the sole foundation of the Ideal.”
Source: Home Scenes and Heart Studies by Grace Aguilar
“The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.”
“The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of cabbages and kings — of previously unrelated frames of reference or universes of discourse — whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.”
“The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.”
“The real achiever do one thing at a time.”
“The real achievers are those who, in the dreary pit of sacrifice, still smile up at the goal.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year