T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The thing you have to remember is, oil and gas are commodities, and the more we use them the more the price goes up, like any commodity. Solar, wind - they are technologies, so the more you use them, the more the price goes down.”
“The thing you have to understand,” Hel said quietly, as if the shadows might overhear, “is that someone like my father doesn’t have ‘men.’ He’s a whisper of information, a nudge on someone’s baser instincts, a finger on a domino whose effects spiral out in unseen designs.”
Source: Strange Beasts
“The thing you have to understand is that being a good person isn’t about singing hymns, or praying to some mystical, god. It isn’t about wearing a cross or going to church every Sunday. Being a good person is about how you treat others. A good person doesn’t need a religion, because they are content within themselves that they are doing the right thing.”
Source: The Chalk Man
“The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.”
“The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.”
“The thing you know as Karma, does not really exist the way you think. It can only exist through the law of causality, which means, when you make efforts to achieve something, the results do indeed occur, given enough time, resources and above all, perseverance.”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.”
Source: Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
“The thing you let Die within when you are Alive, will be carried with your Soul after Death.”
“The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.”
“The thing you long for summons you away from the self. Even the desire for the thing lives only if you abandon it. This is the ultimate law—the seed dies to live, the bread must be cast upon the waters, he that loses his soul will save it.”
Source: The Problem of Pain
“The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.”
“The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.”
“The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him”
“The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look, because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.”
“The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.”
“The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent”
“The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is a big pressure if the writing is not hilarious.”
“The thing you resist is the thing you need to hear the most.”
“The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.”
“The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career, but of your themes and interests. You don't want writing tricks where you make the same joke every time, but you do start to notice what consumes your mind, or what drives you.”
“The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked.”
“The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!”
“The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.”
“The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.”
“The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.”
“The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.”
Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
“The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence.”
“The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.”
“The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.”
“The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker”
“The things and the projects that I want to be a part of are not the ones that I get offered. I get offered a lot, but it's not what I'm interested in. So I have to fight very hard for the things that I want to do and to work with the filmmakers that I want to work with.”
“The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.”
Source: A Heap o' Living'
“The things around you will influence your focus, whom you fall in love with, what jobs you have, and what businesses you start.”
Source: sciVive
“The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.”
“The things closest to the heart of God are often the most offensive to the Pharisees.”
“The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.”
“The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.”
Source: Trout Bum
“The things for which we owe thanks are not things we have from ourselves. They are given to us. We receive many gifts, of many kinds. But the highest and really most lasting gift given to us is always our essential nature, with which we are gifted in such a way that we are what we are only through it. That is why we owe thanks for this endowment, first and unceasingly.”
Source: What is called thinking?
“The things had been made a half a dozen times from silent pictures through the '30s and '40s. In fact, I think there's a version in the '50s. And then, of course, Spielberg eventually did a version of The Lost World, but this [filming] was '91, I think. And we shot it in Zimbabwe.”
“The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.”
Source: Downtown Owl: A Novel
“The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.”
Source: The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form
“The things I can't do are the things I have yet to learn.”
“The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.”
“The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.”
Source: Live Your Truth
“The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.”
“The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.”
“The things I do are known to the world, but why I do them is my secret alone.”
“The things I do for love.”
“The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.”
“The things I don't are the things I have yet to learn.”