T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.”
“The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.”
“The strong and the weak cannot keep company.”
Source: Folk-Lore and Fable
“The strong and undeniable fundamentals of low-cost clean energy and the cheapest petrochemical feed-stocks in the world will prevail we believe and we're seeing the demand pool beginning to grow. We have continued to position ourselves in a way that will catch this very sustainable and fundamentally supported wave of volume growth and at the same time, help our customer base achieve their lofty goals of growth as well.”
“The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.”
“The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.”
“The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties shall rule the other, the weaker must always succumb. And whether the contest be carried on with ballots or bullets, the principle is the same; for under the theory of government now prevailing, the ballot either signifies a bullet, or it signifies nothing. And no one can consistently use a ballot, unless he intends to use a bullet, if the latter should be needed to insure submission to the former.”
Source: No Treason: No. 1-
“The strong are always kind.”
Source: Vagabond, Volume 25
“The strong are good, only the weak are wicked.”
“The strong are so stupid.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.”
“The strong belief can make things out of imagination.
But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.”
“The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker.”
“The strong conviction of the truth is the only thing that convinces a man to be converted.”
“The strong counterattack against the values of the European Enlightenment has come just at the time when, for the reasons already given, the confidence of Europe in its own culture is collapsing. The result of the conjunction of these two forces is the phenomenon of multiculturalism, an ideology that celebrates cultural diversity as an unqualified good in its own right. When this ideology takes over, value judgments claiming to discriminate between different cultural traditions in terms of their intrinsic worth are ruled out of order. Cultural diversity is an unqualified good; judgments of good or bad with respect to different cultures are condemned as cultural imperialism.”
Source: Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship
“The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.”
“The strong desire for success is the best indication that you can achieve success.”
“The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.”
Source: Quarles' emblems, illustr. by C. Bennett and W.H. Rogers
“The strong do as they will while the weak suffer what they must.”
Source: Pharaoh
“The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.”
Source: History of the Peloponnesian War: A Companion
“The strong equilibrium point f just described is one of "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice that is entirely oblivious to the sometimes dire consequences to oneself or to the other faitheful i.e., those who have not deviated.”
“The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.”
“The strong flame that the volcano carries in its heart will one day erupt with a powerful explosion.”
“The strong floral fragrance was sickening, suffocating, and threatened to snuff out any lingering remainder of fragile lilac—of the mother she’d loved so, so much.”
Source: A Reflection of Ice
“The strong forgive after speaking out.”
“The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.”
“The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.”
“The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.”
“The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!”
“The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.”
“The strong is not the one who overcomes the people by his strength, but the strong is the one who controls himself while in anger”
“The strong leader takes a chance when there is little hope,
The hope that he will succeed and little chance of failure”
“The strong lines of the woman's
face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching
her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?”
Source: Elantris
“The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.”
“The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.”
Source: The Game
“The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.”
Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra
“The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.”
Source: Strength to Love
“The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.”
Source: Strength to Love
“The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“The strong man is not one who is good at wrestling, but the strong man is one who controls himself in a fit of rage.”
“The strong man is strongest when alone.”
Source: William Tell: An Historical Play
“The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.”
“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”
“The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, that cigarette. There was a movie going on right under his nose and he didn't even know. The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it.”
Source: The Five Gates of Hell
“The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.”
“The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.”
“The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.”
“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.”