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 she suddenly wrote the essay was to make me the son of a murderer, not a murderer.”
Source: 전지적 독자 시점 1 [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom 1]
“The reason why shows like Friends and The Office are so beloved is because they show us what we truly want in life - a tight knit social group that we're always a part of, no matter how bad we screw up.”
“The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.”
Source: Literary Studies: The first Edinburgh reviewers (1855) Hartley Coleridge (1852) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1856) Shakespeare the man (1853) John Milton (1859) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1862) William Cowper (1855) Appendices; Letters on the French coup d̓etat
“The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.”
Source: The collected works of Walter Bagehot
“The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.”
“The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.”
“The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.”
Source: Self-help
“The reason why so many of my photographs in the book were taken in stairwells and corridors was that that was the only bit of spare space available and, in some cases, the only place where there was enough light to see anything. Even then, it was often so dark that I couldn't tell which gender my subject was (not that I particularly cared) and too dark, before the era of autofocus, to focus. I had to find a light (or carry a torch) and pre-focus.”
“The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“The reason why some of the recorded music is trash . It is because we as producers are rushing the output and we forget about the input. Once a song is recorded. We don't give it enough time in editing and listening to it. Even thou we know what to do and we have the right tools, skill or equipment. We rush it to be the final product.”
“The reason why some people can’t go far in life. It is because of the weight on their shoulder. They have a heavy burden on them. This burden consist of screenshots, messages , conversation and secrets. That can destroy families or someone's life. It consists of grudges, hate, anger, revenge, jealousy, gossip, lies and envy. Their hearts is overloaded. They are holding on to others past and mistakes.
Well Jesus says is you want to be far in life. Cast your burden unto him. Come to him, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and he will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28-30”
“The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“The reason why someone is lying is almost always more interesting than the lie itself.”
Source: Daisy Darker
“The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity.”
Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944
“The reason why the book begins with the wish to “play back” how the two met is precisely to see if repeating the scenario might tell the narrator why he is so thoroughly smitten, to play with the scenario all over again, perhaps to master it, as Freud says about repetition. But there cannot be a “reason.” An attraction that needs a reason is not a reason the heart or the body cares much about.”
“The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man's mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.”
“The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.”
Source: Misalliance
“The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.”
“The reason why the musketeers regiment is so important for Porthos is that it is the only family he's ever known. There's an amazing amount of passion and pride for Porthos in being a musketeer. The Fleur De Lis that he wears on his shoulder guard means the world to him. That brotherhood. Fraternity, loyalty, equality - those things are very important to Porthos.”
“The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.”
Source: Orations and addresses
“The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.
King Lear: Because they are not eight?
Fool: Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.”
Source: King Lear
“The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance”
“The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own ignorance; whereby it cometh to pass that having learned men in admiration, they rather fear to dislike them than know wherefore they should allow and follow their judgments. Contrariwise with them that are skilful authority is much more strong and forcible; because they only are able to discern how just cause there is why to some men's authority so much should be attributed.”
“The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.”
Source: Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith
“The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.”
Source: Midsummer Snowballs
“The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.”
“The reason why the visit to the Blessed Sacrament, the august Sacrifice of our Altars, and Holy Communion, are spoken of at greater length, is, because, of all exercises of piety, there are none which bring us nearer to Jesus Christ, none more adapted to honor His Sacred Heart, and to inflame ours with an ardent love of Him.”
Source: Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
“The reason why the war ended in Bosnia was not because of amnesty but because a combined Croat-Bosnian offensive defeated the Serbs on the battlefield. Sometimes naïveté belongs not to the human rights activists but to the politicians.”
“The reason why the world is a difficult place to live in, is due to the fact that people are not interested in people. Nobody is truly interested in anybody; they are only interested in the parts that they think will be pleasurable and comfortable for them to get to know. People don't want to know what you're afraid of, what kind of dreams you have at night, what your eyes look like when you laugh and when you hurt... people want to receive perfect gifts and other people are supposed to be those perfect gifts! But then none of us are those perfect gifts. All of us are real on the inside but then people want what's not real... so how is the world supposed to work, that way? I want to know what's real in people, and in me. And it's hard to be this way, because nobody else is.”
“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”
Source: Nature and Other Essays
“The reason why the world's leftists give the world' s most horrible murderers a pass is because they sympathize with their socioeconomic goals, which include government ownership and/or control over the means of production. In the U.S., the call is for government control, through regulations, as opposed to ownership.”
“The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.”
“The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.”
“The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.”
“The reason why things work is because of love.”
“The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.”
“The reason why we are all different is to allow us to; to keep learning about each other so we can keep working with each other and live with one another.”
“The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.”
“The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.”
“The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.”
“The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.”
“The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer - the finest homes, the finest college educations, and the finest jobs in Government we can give.”
“The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.”
“The reason why we get the same partners is not because people are the same, but because we pull the dark shadow of past hurts over our eyes and we live the same all over again. We change the actors, but never the masks we give them in our play.”
“The reason why we have a wrong judgement of the things we mentioned earlier is that we do not look deeply into them to see what they are, but conceive a liking for them or a dislike of them from the very first glance, judging by appearances. These likes and dislikes prejudice our mind and darken it; and so it cannot form a right judgement of things as they really are. So, my brother, if you wish to be free of this prelest in your mind, keep strict attention over yourself; and when you see a thing with your eyes, or visualise it in your mind, keep a firm grip on your desires and do not allow yourself at the first glance either to conceive a liking for the thing or a dislike for it, but examine it in a detached way with the mind alone. Unobscured by passion, the mind then remains in a state natural to it, which is free and pure, and has the possibility to know the truth and to penetrate into the depths of a thing, where evil is often concealed under a deceptively attractive exterior and where good is sometimes hidden under a bad appearance.”
Source: Unseen Warfare: Spiritual Combat against the Passions and the Demonic realm
“The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
“The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
“The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.”
“The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.”