T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.”
“The secrecy that surrounds
any CIA operation makes complete documentation impossible, but the
fragmentary information that is now available permits identification of
several important examples.”
Source: Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960
“The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.”
“The secret about tigers,” he said, blinking owlishly, “is that tigers bounce.”
Before I could even process the ridiculousness of that, he leaned forward and kissed me. Jack was a champion kisser, even while drunk. I threw my arms around his neck, because my brain started to melt into my shoes.
That’s when the universe exploded around us…”
Source: Dead Eye
“The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!”
“The secret art of inviting blessings. The spiritual medicine of all diseases. Morning and night, join your hands in prayer and repeat these words out loud and in your heart for the improvement of body and mind.”
“The secret art of inviting happiness The miraculous medicine of all diseases Just for today, do not anger Do not worry and be filled with gratitude Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people. Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer. Pray these words to your heart and chant these words with your mouth Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind”
“The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.”
Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner
“The secret behind every godly man and woman is their belief in the truth that they have been forgiven. ... Even when they say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or have a wrong thought, they continue to be forgiveness-conscious.”
“The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.”
Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons
“The secret cause of all suffering, is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied if life is to be affirmed.”
“The secret code of success is patience,
a virtue that can not be replaced.
It takes time to build great dreams.”
“The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.”
“The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.”
Source: The Secret Doctrine
“The secret door to peace is to discard all the busyness.”
“The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.”
“The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.”
“The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.”
Source: The Secret Garden
“The secret gem of truth has been hidden in the core of your own heart all along. My invitation is to stop all movement of your mind away from truth so that you can discover directly, for yourself, this jewel that is alive within you.”
“The Secret gives you anything you want: happiness, health, and wealth…Thoughts become things!...Say this over to yourself and let it seep into your consciousness and your awareness. Your thoughts become things….If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.”
“The secret gives you anything you want; happiness, health, and wealth.”
“The secret-- his actual infidelity-- was bad enough. But in this exact moment, the raw, ugly questions about *her*, and the extent of their relationship, ...Just last night, we'd made love. How dare he bring that woman's ghost to our bed, the sacred place where we'd been trying to conceive a child.
My shoulders shook, my hands trembled. "All these nights trying for a baby. Were you thinking of her, instead of--”
Source: The Lost Apothecary
“The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.”
Source: Dot in the Universe
“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”
“The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.”
“The secret in riding is to do only a few things but to do them right”
“The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.”
Source: New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time
“The secret ingredient to my macaroni and cheese is saxophone music. I use it in powdered format, because sometimes it's dormant from the 1980s.”
Source: Me and memes and memories
“The secret ingredient to sex is love.”
“The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility.”
“The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.”
“The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.”
“The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.”
Source: Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
“The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. Many people are aware of these principles, but very few can put them into practice. Every day I hear someone say, 'I'm to fat. I need to lose twenty-five pounds, but I can't. I never seem to improve.' I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak. I can lose ten to forty pounds rapidly, easily, painlessly, by simply setting my mind to it.”
Source: Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according the the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.”
Source: The Alchemist
“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist”
“The secret is I have no shame.”
“The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, my friend, until you've arrived.”
“The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.”
Source: Journey to Ixtlan
“The secret is not in your hand or your eye or your voice, my aunt told me once. The secret is in your heart. Of course, she said, knowing that doesn't make it any easier.
—Secret Heart”
Source: Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings
“The secret is not to act, but to be.”
“The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.”
Source: Bel Ami
“The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.”
Source: The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)
“The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.”
“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”
“The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.”
“The secret is that there is no secret.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it”
“The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.”