T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else.”
“The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.”
“The real pandemic in America isn't Covid-19. It's stupidity. And unfortunately, it's incurable.”
Source: KING OF THE NEW YORK STREETS
“The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.”
“The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.”
“The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively understand what needs to be done - and what must not be done - to work in harmony with its processes.”
“The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“The real payoffs you never understand. You should just give good people money and tell them to do good things.”
“The real pearls of wisdom lie with those who have lived a long life or have escaped death. They will tell you how to live life. It's innate yet sad at the same time.”
“The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each person hears the same exact first human words: "We love you and support you on the journey." At their final celebration, everyone hugs them and repeats the phrase again.”
“The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.”
“The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.”
“The real perfect storm fueling the opioid epidemic had been the collapse of work, followed by the rise in disability and its parallel, pernicious twin: the flood of painkillers pushed by rapacious pharma companies and regulators who approved one opioid pill after another. Declining workforce participation wasn't just a rural problem anymore; it was everywhere, albeit to a lesser degree in areas with physicians who prescribed fewer opioids and higher rates of college graduates. As Monnat put it: "When work no longer becomes an option for people, what you have at the base is a structural problem, where the American dream becomes a scam." She likened the epidemic's spread not to crabgrass but a wildfire: "If the economic collapse was the kindling in this epidemic, the opiates were the spark that lit the fire." And the helicopters were nowhere in sight.”
Source: Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
“The real perfectibility of man may be illustrated, as I have
mentioned before, by the perfectibility of a plant. The object of the
enterprising florist is, as I conceive, to unite size, symmetry, and beauty
of colour. It would surely be presumptuous in the most successful
improver to affirm, that he possessed a carnation in which these
qualities existed in the greatest possible state of perfection. However
beautiful his flower may be, other care, other soil, or other suns, might
produce one still more beautiful.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population
“The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.”
“The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.”
Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
“The real pilgrimage is a journey into the unknowable.”
“The real piracy wasn’t downloads. It was contracts.”
“The real platform for religion is based on the concepts of compassion, respect and consideration, not just for human beings, but for all forms of life.”
“The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.”
“The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to... spend some time looking out at this beautiful spaceship Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.”
“The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.”
“The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.”
“The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.”
Source: The 50th Law
“The real point is always buried in the subtitles.”
Source: Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It
“The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.”
“The real point is this: We don't know where to go because we don't know what we are. Do you want to go back to living in a sewer-pipe? And eating other people's garbage? Because that's what rats do. But the fact is, we aren't rats anymore. We are something Dr. Schultz has made. Something new.”
Source: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
“The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.”
“The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.”
Source: The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
“The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development”
Source: Electricity for a developing world: new directions
“The real potential of humans is in sharing and creating a mind cloud through a network of minds with different perspectives but radiating the same positive energy.”
Source: Quantraz
“The real potential of Web3 is in allowing businesses and people to collectively function more similarly to biological ecosystems.”
“The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.”
“The real power belongs to the people.”
Source: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
“The real power in helping somebody to be transformed is not to do something to them but to join with them.”
“The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.”
“The real power is inside you. Harness it, nurture it, and watch it grow miraculously.”
“The real power is love, that which empowers others, that which arouses action, that which no chain is able to hold back, for even on the Cross or on the death bed one is able to love. One does not need youthful beauty, nor recognition or approval, nor money or prestige. Let love simply bloom...and it is unstoppable.”
“The real power is not corporate; it is private. They choose not to have a name. It is a dynasty of banking families - Rothschild and Rockefeller being two - that operate chiefly out of London, in the boardrooms out of the city of London and the Bank of England, which they own.”
“The real power is to pray.”
“The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.”
“The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.”
Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel
“The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.”
Source: A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays
“The real power of comics is writing as you draw.”
“The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art”
“The real power of money is the power to give it away.”
“The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence!”