T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.”
“The realities of getting up in the morning with two children and being covered in spit-up and totally filthy make me excited to imagine clothes that aren't made for baby puke. Dressing nicely is a dream now.”
“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The realities of life will make you question your ability to climb the ladder of success, but when you look beyond any circumstance and focus on success, you will excel.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.”
Source: The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
“The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.”
“The realities of nursing are that they work in environments which are typically filled with toxic air, toxic light, high levels of radiation, and potentially deadly infectious agents.”
“The realities of pitched warfare rarely made it into the sagas. In all the stories he’d heard, especially those woeful diatribes from the remembrancers, battle was reduced to a handful of heroes going blade-to-blade in the sunlight, while their nameless lessers looked on in stupefied awe.
It took a great deal to make Khârn cringe, but war poetry never failed.”
Source: Betrayer
“The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.”
“The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.”
Source: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition
“The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.”
“The realities of the world that we live in do not need to shape the nature of the attitudes that we live with.”
“The reality about life is that challenges are inevitable.”
“The reality an individual created for themselves during life, and its rippling impact on others is where the decision on the significance of their legacy lies and not in their longevity.”
“The reality around us will reflect our consciousness and present itself as we expect it to.”
Source: Wor(l)ds from Nothingness
“The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.”
“The reality consists only of now, the present. It has nothing to do with the past and nothing to do with the future. It is so concentrated in this moment that if you can be in this moment, all that you are seeking and searching will be fulfilled. This moment is the door to the divine.”
“The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.”
Source: Steve Jobs
“The reality for me is simple. When music is written, it is usually categorized as classical. When it is improvised, it can still be called classical if it is an inspired improvisation. In either category, it is still music, and it can be good or bad or simply mediocre.”
“The reality here is, these are people that campaign for votes, and nobody wants to be associated with pictures that would certainly exist, even if they were fake, and they most likely would be. You know, can you imagine 150 pictures of that federal agent storming the home in Florida to kidnap Elian Gonzalez and send him back to Cuba?”
“The reality I submerse myself in when writing, is far greater than the physical reality surrounding me at work!”
“The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different educational experiences. It’s the biggest social injustice imaginable. What we are allowing to happen in this day and age, we are still allowing the color of a child’s skin and the Zip code they live in to dictate their educational outcome, and therefore their life outcome. We are robbing them every single day of their futures. And everybody in this country should be infuriated by that.”
“The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than a tax cut, ... This Week.”
“The reality is [Donald] Trump is just better at this game than they are. Blaming the media may be a convenient foil, but the reality is, he`s played the free media game better than they have. He has used the personal attack meme against them and literally created memes about them. They need to figure out how to play this game.”
“The reality is [in] any emotional situation, a compulsive eater eats or an alcoholic
drinks. What people misunderstand is that when you're a compulsive overeater,
you don't just eat when things are bad. You eat when you feel anything.”
“The reality is - A high Debt to Income Ratio can counter a high Credit Score!!! - The Credit Repair Book: The Credit Repair Company's Secret Weapon.”
Source: The Credit Repair Book: The Credit Repair Company's "Secret Weapon"
“The reality is customers lie - not because they want to want to deceive you, but because they don't do a good job of predicting what they will do in the future.”
“The reality is Donald Trump's a genius.”
“The reality is each new day and each project is another opportunity to learn, experiment and try something I haven't done before. I've found that's what keeps me motivated and moving forward - learning new things and challenging myself on a daily basis to improve as a composer, recording engineer, percussionist, guitarist, producer...the list goes on and on!”
“The reality is fuck the animals, fuck biodiversity, fuck the laws, and long live construction," [Ricardo Freitas] said. "All of this is being done because some people will make a lot of money, and it's being done with no monitoring, no support, no rescue of species.”
Source: Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink
“The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.”
“The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.”
“The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him”
“The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.”
“The reality is I'm kind of like an ocean. Everything is calm, calm, calm. I'm good. When the ball goes up in the air, the waves start rocking.”
“The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.”
“The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude.”
“The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight against foreign nations, against people we don't like, against political groups, radicals, and extremists whose ideas we may not agree with, and could be repulsive or even violent - if we let that happen without public buy-in, we won't have any seat at the table of government to decide whether or not it's appropriate for these officials to drag us into some kind of war activity that we don't want, but we weren't aware of at the time.”
“The reality is if you take any three people and look at their cellphones or blackberries and facebook pages, you can get to almost everywhere in the country, because we're networked together in a way that is incredibly powerful.”
“The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.”
Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“The reality is it's still in our hands. We have to play four real good games against the Angels. If we take three of four we're still two back and then we'd need help. We'd still be breathing, but we'd need help. We'll shoot all our bullets to try and win that game (Monday) and worry about the next day when we get there.”
“The reality is just the opposite: the master does nothing. It is in your becoming a disciple that the whole mystery lies. It is in your surrender of the ego that the whole search comes to an authentic point. It is in putting your mind aside. That is what sannyas is: an authentic discipleship. It means putting your mind aside. You have lived according to your mind up to now. If that is fulfilling, then there is no need for anybody to become a sannyasin.”
“The reality is, no matter what you were told, whatever happened to you as a child was not legally or morally your fault. Abused children are instilled with guilt regarding their "participation." It's an especially complex issue if the abuser is a family member. The child is told and believes that by his word his family will disintegrate, or harm may descend upon other loved ones. He fears he will lose more by telling than not.”
Source: Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
“The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.”
“The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.”
“The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.”
“The reality is one thing; the name; with all is strange associations, is only an outward shell of such reality.”
Source: A Glastonbury Romance
“The reality is our season prepared us so well that if we have to play Duke in the second game, we've done that three times this year. We've played North Carolina and Duke back-to-back that this would be the third time. We're just very prepared for this moment.”
“The reality is people are going to steal the record instead of buying it. It's kind of a cancer in the industry where people will just use a streaming service and then won't buy the record.”
“The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.”