T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“The simple and familiar hold the secrets of the complex and unknown.”
Source: The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
“The simple and most complex answer is love.”
“The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.”
Source: The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
“The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not”
“The simple approach is that if I stay aggressive, I'll hit less often with two strikes in the count. I've been aggressive, but I've missed pitches. If I can put them in play earlier in the count, I eliminate the two-strike approach.”
“The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.”
“The simple, chaste lines of a monastic Church, built perhaps by unskilled hands in the wilderness, may well say infinitely more in praise of God than the pretentious enormities of costly splendor that are erected to be looked at rather than to be prayed in.”
Source: The Silent Life
“The simple choice to pray usually happens to the exclusion of something else in our lives. Often that something else is frivolous, but at times prayer must come at the expense of important things, such as our own work, our sleep or our time with loved ones.”
Source: Operation World: When We Pray God Works
“The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single family, might exhibit an interesting and instructive picture of human manners; but the tedious repetition of vague and declamatory complaints would fatigue the attention of the most patient reader.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The simple clue is when you are in the wrong venue, your presence won't be of value.”
“The simple combination of letters and sounds you select as a name for your baby can result in a life of carefree coolness or decades of expensive therapy. Hi, I'm Jake versus Hi, I'm... Tapioca”
“The simple crawl to truth.
The average walk to knowledge.
The prudent run to understanding.
The intelligent sprint to brilliance.
The enlightened soar to wisdom.
The simple crawl to laughter.
The average walk to peace.
The prudent run to contentment.
The intelligent sprint to enjoyment.
The enlightened soar to joy.
The simple crawl to patience.
The average walk to gratitude.
The prudent run to virtue.
The intelligent sprint to faith.
The enlightened soar to love.
The simple crawl to caution.
The average walk to passion.
The prudent run to discipline.
The intelligent sprint to humility.
The enlightened soar to excellence.
The simple crawl to awareness.
The average walk to reality.
The prudent run to experience.
The intelligent sprint to spirituality.
The enlightened soar to destiny.
The simple crawl to the past.
The average walk to the present.
The prudent run to the future.
The intelligent sprint to eternity.
The enlightened soar to immortality.”
“The simple definition of evangelism: Those who know, telling those who don't.”
“The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.”
“The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.”
Source: Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories
“The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.”
“The simple, external acts in which you resolve shame and guilt, and set right a debt, by passing by them all and giving something grander even so and instead of. You end the circle by leaving it behind. Conscience brings awareness of the need to change something, but the source of your actions must become inspiration and devotion. You’re not doing it to get out of debt; you are doing it because you know it to be the thing to do.”
Source: Re:
“The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious in the Linux port and vice versa, and thus get fixed. So even the Windows gamers will win in all of this.”
“The simple fact is that fighting to save a life is a better and more enduring reason than fighting to end one.”
Source: Shantaram
“The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. ... I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.”
“The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.”
Source: The Gospel of John
“The simple fact is that there is a limited amount of water on the planet, and we cannot afford to be negligent in its use. We cannot keep treating it as if it will never run out.”
“The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993
“The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.”
“The simple fact is that, since the beginning of this century, the average global temperature has flatlined; indeed, over the past 18 months it has fallen back, and according to the satellite measurements of temperature, it is now basically back at the level it was in 1979, when such measurements started to be taken.”
“The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.”
Source: Depth of field: essays on photography, mass media, and lens culture
“The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.”
“The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.”
Source: Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
“The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.”
“The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given.”
“The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.”
“The simple fact of the matter is that wars can not be won in this way. Militias can play an important role in defending the gains of a revolution, in organizing irregular warfare within a circumscribed region, and in suppressing counter-revolutionary activity within the zone of a revolution. But without a regular army of its own the revolution can not hold back the advances of an invading army.”
Source: The Historical Failure of Anarchism: Implications for the Future of the Revolutionary Project
“The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
“The simple fact that he could, took the desire away, and the charm of it”
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“The simple fact that man can reach his Higher Self is already evidence of God — a hint of perfection within us.”
“The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.”
Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost
“The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.”
“The simple fact that there's a title for him-husband-means he has a role in the family, whatever his ethnicity.”
“The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough.”
“The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.”
“The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.”
“The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.”
Source: Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson
“The simple idea that if you treat people well, the way you would like to be treated, they will do the same.”
“The simple index fund solution has been adopted as a cornerstone of investment strategy for many of the nation's pension plans operated by our giant corporations and state and local governments. Indexing is also the predominant strategy for the largest of them all, the retirement plan for federal government employees, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The plan has been a remarkable success, and now holds some $173 billion of assets for the benefit of our public servants and members of armed services.”
“The simple intention to surrender control is all you need to experience miracles.”
Source: Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose
“The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.”