T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The reason why Jane’s spirit was not broken was that she had a secret. It was her own special secret and she had told no one else except Peggy. She locked it in her heart and hugged it to herself. It was this glorious secret that filled her with such irrepressible joy and exhilaration. But it was also to be the cause of her greatest disaster, and her life-long grief.
The rumour that her father was a high-born gentleman in Parliament must have reached Jane’s ears when she was a little girl. Perhaps she had heard the officers talking about it, or perhaps another child had heard the adults talking and told her. Perhaps Jane’s mother had told another workhouse inmate, who had passed it on. One can never tell how rumours start.
To Jane, it was not a rumour. It was an absolute fact. Her daddy was a high-born gentleman, who one day would come and take her away. She fantasised endlessly about her daddy. She talked to him, and he talked to her.”
Source: Shadows of the workhouse
“The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.”
“The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.”
“The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)
“The reason why lions hunt successfully as a pride, is reason enough for Africans to unite.”
Source: The Azanian
“The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.
[Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux memes.]”
“The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.”
“The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.”
Source: The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan:Gayan
“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.”
“The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.”
“The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.”
Source: CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]
“The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.”
Source: Remains To Be Seen
“The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were going to perhaps be forced to go overseas and fight in an immoral war.”
“The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.”
Source: Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age
“The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.”
Source: The Acts of the Apostles
“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.”
Source: Two treatises of government
“The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.”
“The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.”
“The reason why most of the sales don’t happen is because of the poor customer trust in the company and its product.”
Source: The Art of Running a Successful Wedding Services Business: The Missing Puzzle Piece You’re Looking For
“The reason why most of your goals are probably not achieved is because you do not break down your goals into smaller units of work.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.”
“The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!”
“The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.”
“The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.”
Source: FROM EROS TO GAIA
“The reason why no one had spoken to [Iranians] for the last years is because they sponsored Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinians, Al Qaeda, 9/11. The last time anyone spoke to the Iranians was when Ronald Reagan said, 'I've just been elected and you better let our hostages go or you guys are absolutely screwed'.”
“The reason why Nokia has been built in Finland is simply because Finland was very far behind in terms of infrastructure, so it was relatively easy to implement new technology.”
“The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that Trump created his brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it. It's this ultimate power through wealth and this dream that represents in an age of tremendous economic precariousness and constrained options for so many people - that watching Trump be able to do whatever he wants to whoever he wants is this obvious vicarious kind of thrill for a certain demographic.”
“The reason why one man is great and another is not is simply because one man discovered the power of time while the other did not.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did not.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The reason why our feeling, perceiving, and thinking self appears nowhere in our scientific worldview can easily be expressed in five words: It is itself this worldview. It is identical with the whole and therefore cannot be contained within it as a part.”
Source: Geist und Materie (Diogenes Taschenbuch)
“The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.”
Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].”
“The reason why people fail to achieve their dreams is because they stop pursuing them.”
“The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.”
“The reason why people in traditional marriages tend to stay together for a lifetime is because it is ‘standard’ to sacrifice novelty for longevity, while some of us [the modern ones] who value and prioritize sensuality and depth of connection in a relationship or marriage find it absolutely preposterous to sacrifice novelty for longevity—the price is just way too high, that is if you truly understand what’s really at stake.”
“The reason why people in traditional marriages tend to stay together for a lifetime is because it is ‘standard’ to sacrifice novelty for longevity, while some of us [the modern ones] who value sensuality and depth of connection in a relationship or marriage find it absolutely preposterous to sacrifice novelty for longevity—the price is just way too high, that is if you truly understand what’s really at stake.”
“The reason why people say that you've changed when you become successful is because during the come up you were accessible but since the blow up you only make time for those who always made time for you.”
“The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.”
“The reason why politics is largely unimportant is that so many people you might disagree with have skills to produce all the necessary amenities you need to live. Neither side in any debate is good at everything, and often the most outspoken voices for conflict are good at nothing else.”
“The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.”
“The reason why Professor Earle was pleased with this Prose Diction, and why Mr. W. B. Yeats believes that 'in this century he who does not strive to be a perfect craftsman achieves nothing,' is that men understand now the im- possibility of speaking aloud all that is within them, and if they do not speak it, they cannot write as they speak. The most they can do is to write as they would speak in a less solitary world. A man cannot say all that is in his heart to a woman or another man. The waters are too deep between us. We have not the confidence in what is within us, nor in our voices. Any man talking to the deaf or in dark- ness will leave unsaid things which he could say were he not compelled to shout, or were it light; or perhaps he will venture once — even twice— and a silence or a foolish noise prohibits him. But the silence of solitude is kindly; it allows a man to speak as if there were another in the world like himself; and in very truth, out of the multitudes, in the course of years, one or two may come, or many, who can enter that solitude and converse with him, inspired by him to confidence and articulation. Wisely did Quintilian argue against dictation, that ‘privacy is rendered impossible by it; and that a spot free from witnesses and the deepest possible silence are the most desirable for persons engaged writing, no one can doubt. You are not therefore necessarily to listen to those who think that groves and woods are the most proper places for study. ... To me, assuredly, such retirement seems rather conducive to pleasure than an incentive to literary exertion. Demosthenes acted more wisely, who secluded himself in a place where no voice could be heard, and no prospect contemplated, that his eyes might not oblige his mind to attend to anything else besides his business. As to those who study by lamplight, therefore, let the silence of the night, the closed chamber, and a single light, keep them, as it were, wholly in seclusion. . . .”
Source: Walter Pater
“The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just to the black community, but to the white community.”
“The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.”
“The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.”
“The reason why salt and sugar are known to be sweet is that they season other things. Care to share and dare to do it every day!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.”
“The reason why sensuality is so rare in our day and age is because it’s a very expensive experience to create. Lap dance is easy (you can take a class for that), blaw job is easy (I assume ‘lol’), sex is easy (it’s biology).
The hardest thing to do is create and fulfill dreams of ecstasy. And this is really what it’s all about. This is what the world craves more than anything else.”
“The reason why sensuality isn’t always an instantly digestible message is because, like a five course meal in a five star restaurant, it took time to prepare and therefore requires time to take it all in.”
“The reason why she had chosen journalism was because of those who had done so before her. Stalwart women and men who reported stories in the days before the Internet. Before it was fashionable to learn Mass Communication. A long time before being a TV reporter and calling up your family to see your face beamed to their homes was an in thing. They were those who had left their families behind as they pursued the truth, opting to go to jail when the government hounded them to reveal their sources. Men and women that would rather quit than write editorials the management wanted them to write. Journalists who never wrote a word they would have to disown. Journalists who took their last breath as they wrote an article was true to what they believed in. They would never sit down and take stock of the stories they had covered and written saying, “So what if twenty of these are non-stories, I at least had five I believed in.”
Source: Between The Headlines