T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.”
Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of
“The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.”
Source: Complete Tales & Poems
“The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg. The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't take it too seriously.”
“The rugged fallow ground under her feet seemed to her to be a symbol of faith — faith that winter would come and pass — the spring sun and rain would burst the seeds of wheat — and another summer would see the golden fields of waving grain. If she did not live to see them, they would be there just the same; and so life and nature had faith in its promise. That strange whisper was to Lenore the whisper of God.”
Source: The Desert of Wheat
“The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.”
“The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can never enough whimsical throw pillows in your house, in your life. My husband probably disagrees.”
“The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author
“The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.”
“The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as a singular event in the history of the human mind.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.”
“The ruined soul is restored through the redemption grace of repentance.”
“The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher. Science, concerned solely and exclusively with objective existents, cannot give answers to questions about meanings and values. Only ideas engendered by the mind and to be found nowhere but in the mind (Socrates), only the pure transcendental forms supplied by reason (Kant), can secure the ideals and values and put us in touch with the realities that constitute our moral and spiritual life. Twenty-four centuries after Socrates, two centuries after Kant, we badly need to re-learn the lesson.”
“The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?”
“The ruins of Chief Azul's house can still be seen to the right as your enter the town of Sacaton from the north--a two story structure with the roof fallen in. In front, across the road to the south is a monument which was put up in memory of the first Indian killed in World War One who was a Pima Indian from our tribe.
[page 51, Progress]”
Source: A Pima Remembers
“The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.”
“The ruins of the dance are the dance.”
Source: The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing
“The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.”
“The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“The ruins often amaze us because we are so arrogant that it is difficult for us to accept the talents of the people of the past!”
“The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.”
Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“The ruins stretch from the river to the base of that mountain over there, about half a kilometre.’
‘How far is that in regular measurements?’ Percy asked.
Frank rolled his eyes. ‘That is a regular measurement in Canada and the rest of the world. Only you Americans –’
‘About five or six football fields,’ Hazel interceded, feeding Arion a big chunk of gold.
Percy spread his hands. ‘That’s all you needed to say.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“The ruins were no longer ruins. On the cliffs, at the highest point of the island, white towers rose to breathtaking points. As they thundered up the slope, the rest was revealed: a vast fortress, almost a citadel, its jumble of solid buildings and soaring parapets ringed by pale walls. It was clean and shining and new-made, entwined with climbing plants and trees and dark moss. In the darkness it glowed with a hundred hanging lights.
She was seeing the island as it had been thousands of years ago, under an ancient moon. This was the lost civilization of Hy-Brasil.”
Source: The Magician’s Daughter
“The rule
Of the many is not well. One must be chief
In war and one the king.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.”
“The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.”
Source: Mere Literature, and Other Essays
“The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.”
“The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“The rule for J.O.Y is Jesus, Others and You. You can’t have a perfect joy if all you think about is about how to groom your life!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.”
Source: Notes of a journey through France and Italy ...
“The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.”
“The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful. There's no such thing as a PowerBar tree.”
“The rule in music land is never doody in the bus and never doody in the RV.”
“The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.”
Source: The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal
“The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.”
“The rule is easy to understand.
Be simple, honest & smart.”
“The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.”
“The rule is not written anywhere, it's not etched in any - but, I mean, that's the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don't have an adventure.”
“The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”
“The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter”
Source: The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.”
“The rule is: to speak.
Make contact, and you will find people more beautiful than you thought.”
“The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.”
“The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.”
“The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today It must come sometime to jam today, Alice objected No it can't said the Queen It's jame every other day. Today isn't any other day, you know”
“The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.”
“The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.”
“The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.”
“The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.”
“The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.”
Source: Beating the Street