T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.”
“The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945
“The things you say, the things you don't say, the things you do, or the things you don't do are always sending a loud message to those around you. What kind of a message are you sending? Is it a true reflection of who you are?”
Source: Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
“The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara.”
“The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
Source: Meditations
“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”
Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.”
Source: Draw the Dark
“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.”
“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
Source: You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection
“The things you’ve done and the things you’ve said; the fists you’ve raised and the bruises you’ve kissed, everything has finally come together and will now stay together.”
Source: The Damned Utd
“The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.”
“The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.”
“The things you were talking about. The lights and the flowers. Do they expect those things to make them romantic, not the other way around?”
“Darling, what do you mean?”
“There wasn’t a person there who enjoyed it,” she said, her voice lifeless, “or who thought or felt anything at all. They moved about, and they said the same dull things they say anywhere. I suppose they thought the lights would make it brilliant.”
“Darling, you take everything too seriously. One is not supposed to be intellectual at a ball. One is simply supposed to be gay.”
“How? By being stupid?”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“The things you're crying about today, you might be laughing about in ten years ... and then again ... maybe not.”
“The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.”
Source: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Poirot)
“The things you’re most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.”
“The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.”
“The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“The thingy? You want me, the most intelligent cognitive processor in the known worlds, to say thingy?""Yes," I reaffirmed. "That is correct."Do you stay up nights thinking of ways to humiliate me?" HARV asked.”
“The Think step is about identifying alternatives, a key part of decision-making in everything from product design to public policy. First you must quiet the thoughts telling you things can’t change, and then you need to ask questions, to see what other options there may be for moving forward and lead to your desired outcome.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.”
Source: A Preface to Morals
“The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“The thinker ought to be loyal to the small, just as the Creator is.”
Source: Psychological Investigations
“The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.”
“The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.”
“The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”
Source: Philosophical Fragments
“The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.”
Source: Compromises
“The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.”
“The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.”
“The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.”
“The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.”
“The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.”
Source: Gargoyles: A Novel
“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.”
“The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.”
“The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.”
“The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.”
Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings
“The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.”
“The thinking needs to shift from being less about the actual things, to being about the individual user.”
“The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.”
“The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.”
“The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality of the moment. The greatness of the one lies in the absolute abstract soundness of his idea.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.”
“The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.”
Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious
“The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.”
“The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't believe a word he says.”
“The thinking process is infinite but what progresses is action not thinking.”