T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.”
“The real subject of every painting is light.”
“The real success story of branding in recent decades has been the way in which companies have used their brands to turn the satisfaction of complex and even spiritual needs into commercial transactions.”
Source: Brand New Justice
“The real supernatural power wallows in the deepest stretches of the river, Father. She's down in the weeds where the sun doesn’t shine, trawling the riverbed.”
Source: Crazy Daisy: An Old Castle Novel
“The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.”
“The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.”
Source: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
“The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want [...] Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic. The press helps every time it writes scare stories about the plot and the threat. And if we're terrified, and we share that fear, we help.”
“The real teaching lives in the gaps, where people once paused, pen hovering, unsure what to add, realizing the conversation was never meant to finish.”
Source: The Boxmaker’s Apprentice
“The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.”
“The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.”
“The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.”
“The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.”
“The real test is for a man to live with himself for an extended period. Alone, there is no room for insincerity or pretensions; he must know what he is. It is then that the doubts arise. If he can live with himself without going mad, then he has achieved something.”
“The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .”
“The real test is this one: When you're alone in a room, when you're in a private place and nobody else can see you, what do you choose to do? Eat well, or eat poorly? Exercise, or watch television? Practice something, or do nothing? The best version of the truth appears to you and you alone, when nobody else can see. This is the test of discipline, and it's what makes the difference in your life. It's what regulates your own system and guides it. The individual alone comprehends it.”
“The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.”
“The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.”
“The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.”
“The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.”
“The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.”
Source: Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be
“The real test of every human community is how it cares for the most vulnerable...”
Source: Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing
“The real test of financial competency lies beyond the classroom walls; young adults must ace it with the financial knowledge they've cultivated through education and practice.”
Source: Teach Your Child About Money Through Play: 110+ Games/Activities, Tips, and Resources to Teach Kids Financial Literacy at an Early Age
“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
“The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.”
“The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.”
“The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.”
Source: Killosophy
“The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.”
Source: The ethical slut: a guide to infinite sexual possibilities
“The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.”
Source: Collected Works
“The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends but of one's enemies.”
“The real test of our character is when the bottom falls out.”
“The real test of your character is not how much you deal with adversity — although that will teach you much. The real test is how you deal with power. The only cure for power is humility and the admission that your power comes from luck. The small person believes they are superior; the superior person knows they are lucky.”
Source: Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
“The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.”
“The real test on the path of love is are you willing to give up everything for your love?”
“The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.”
“The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.”
“The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.”
“The real thing about evil… you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.”
“The real thing creates its own poetry.”
Source: Red ribbon on a white horse
“The real thing is not the goal, the real thing is the beauty of the movement. The real thing is not reaching, the real thing is the journey. Remember, the real thing is the journey, the very traveling. It is so beautiful, why bother about the goal? And if you are too bothered about the goal, you will miss the journey, and the journey is life - the goal can only be death.”
“The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.”
“The real thing is that you are suffering from your expectations. When they are not fulfilled - and they are never going to be fulfilled - frustration arises, failure arises, and you feel neglected, as if existence does not care for you. Drop expectations for the future. Remain open, remain available to whatsoever happens, but don't plan ahead. Don't make any psychological, fixed ideas about the future - that things should be like this - and much more suffering will disappear.”
“The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.”
“The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.”
“The real thing that got me thinking were his female characters. Beatrice... Rosalind... Viola... Portia. They were feminists long before there was ever a woman's movement. But Shakespeare, in real life, had two daughters that he never educated. They didn't even know how to write their own names." Melina shook her head. "I just can't believe a man who created such iconic women in his plays wouldn't want his daughters to have the same rights.”
Source: By Any Other Name
“The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the culprit is fear, women are afraid of one thing, men are afraid of a different thing; the fears of women have to do with losing while the fears of men have to do with not being good enough for something. One is loss, the other is insecurity. Men are innately more insecure than women and women are innately more needful of companionship than men. It's good for both men and women to be able to recognize and identify these fears not only within themselves, but within each other, and then men and women will see that they really do need to help each other. It's not a game, it's not a competition, the two sexes need one another.”
“The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special.”