T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.”
“The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.”
“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.”
“The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.”
“The strongest and most influential story on Earth is the story that the soul knows before leaving the body at the last moment.”
“The strongest and most resilient among us have been broken and often traveled a ragged road.”
“The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.”
“The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.”
“The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.”
“The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.”
“The strongest are not those who appear mighty, but those who endure unseen battles with unwavering faith.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The strongest are not those who never fail, but those who rise with resilience after they fall.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.”
“The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.”
“The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.”
“The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.”
Source: Controversial Essays
“The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.”
Source: On the contrary
“The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. ... No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, at any rate, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves.”
“The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.”
Source: The Ministry of Healing
“The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.”
“The strongest armor one can wear is integrity.”
“The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!”
“the strongest backs bear the heaviest burdens”
Source: Consolation of the Rose
“The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
–Abraham Lincoln”
“The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.”
Source: The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
“The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).”
Source: The Saints' Everlasting Rest
“The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation. Climbing another V17 is not going to save the world! This activity of 'rock climbing' is merely one of many ways to exist, pass the time, and evolve and grow from one moment to the next. That’s all.”
“The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair.”
“The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.”
“The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.”
“The strongest drive inside of a submissive, underneath all their emotional wounds, is for the Master to push aside any curtains or walls they may have erected to separate them from their true self, the naked, vulnerable soul. Because that soul wants only one thing. Do you want to know what that is?"
"I don't want to know. That's not what the training's about."
"Wrong. That's what submissive training is all about. Getting past those shields so she feels truly bound to her Master, a part of him as he's a part of her. The ultimate connection, where thought isn't necessary. They're together in the most elemental and perfect way there is. She stared at him. "Let me go, Tyler. I can't do this." "You can. You will.”
Source: Ice Queen
“The strongest endure their wounds in silence, without applause for their growth, without witnesses to their healing. Yet they become whole, quietly and completely.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether they are male or female.”
“The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“The strongest firepower against adverse experiences is ones capacity to pick one state of mind over another.”
“The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.”
“The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.”
“The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“The strongest have their moments of fatigue.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.”
“The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.”
“The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.”
“The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?”
Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
“The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.”
“The strongest inpression remaining with me after watching the wolves...was their friendliness towards each other.”
“The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.”