T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The three most common killers of friendships are betrayal, distance, and growth.”
“the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.”
“The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.”
“The three most dangerous words in medicine: in my experience.”
“The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.”
“The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.”
“The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."”
“The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.”
“The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.”
“The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.”
“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.”
“The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.”
“The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.”
“The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.”
“The three most important lessons I have learned in my life: First, no-thing is more valuable or important in life than being loved and loving others. Second, the lessons in life never end and it’s up to us whether or not we learn from them. Third, life goes on…”
Source: The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
“The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.”
“The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).”
Source: Money dynamics for the new economy
“The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.”
“The three most important things a manager does: One is get the money. Two is always remember to get the money. Three is never forget to always remember to get the money.”
“The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.”
“The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.”
“The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.”
“The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.”
“The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.”
“The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.”
“The three most important words in the English language are: God, Love and Home. They are all the same thing.”
“The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude.”
“The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.”
Source: Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
“The three now faced the moving wall. Trapped, like the last fries in a box with a hungry kid ready to pounce. They had no way to escape.”
Source: The Fallen Pharaoh
“The three of them and the five of us, we are as weather is upon the planet. I breathe them and they breathe me. Clouds and breezes, lightning strikes and claps of thunder, we are the land, the air, the motion of existence, confirmed by sound and light and change.”
Source: The Cosmos of Amie Martine
“The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it. He was Kafka’s friend. Kafka had dreamt him. The three of them knew it. The woman said to the friend, Tonight I want you to have me. The three of them knew it. The man replied: If we sin, Kafka will stop dreaming us. One of them knew it. There was no longer anyone on earth. Kafka said to himself Now the two of them have gone, I’m left alone. I’ll stop dreaming myself.”
“The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save.”
Source: A Master of Djinn
“The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, 'A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.' 'What do you think I'm doing?' asked Francisco.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself.”
“The three of them were the ultimate warriors we all looked up to.
Until the day it all came crashing down.
That was the day our heroes died. That was the day a new hero was born.”
Source: I Will Save the Villain
“The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Bands who had different time signatures etc and for whatever reason, we morphed into Corrosion of Conformity. It's been about thirty years now.”
“The three of us ate a fine supper of grilled trout with sorrel cream sauce, and red potatoes out of Britney's old garden behind the ruins of the Watling place, and watercress sautéed in butter for hardly a moment with a dash of vinegar, and cream custard with wild blackberries for dessert.”
“The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in our hands - and has revealed to us some of its innermost secrets and tricks for developing from a single celled egg to a complex living being of great beauty and harmony. ... None of us expected that our work would be so successful or that our findings would ever have relevance to medicine.”
“The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.”
“The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“The three of us stand in the open hatch and look up at the sky. It's so blue and clear, it makes my eyes water. Then I realize my eyes are weeping because they've never seen anything this beautiful. I never thought about it before, but in the Urb the sky is so close that sometimes you think you could reach up and touch it. Here in Eden the blue goes up forever and you suddenly realize that the sky is much, much bigger than the earth below. And it's more than that: Seeing so far makes you know there's a world outside the world, and a sky beyond the sky.”
Source: The Last Book in the Universe
“The three of us with men who love us and whom we love.
Immortals who love us and whom we love.”
Source: Hungry For You
“The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.' Cardan gives us all a stern look, holding up a long-fingered hand with my stolen ruby ring still on one finger. 'Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.”
Source: The Wicked King
“The three of you were pretty cute last night, with all that touchy-feely crap."
"Yeah, that lasted for about two minutes before you dragged Evan back over to the bar."
"Dude, we were hunting Turkey. [drinking bourbon] it was important." Chris grins. "That boy can drink, I'll give him that."
"That's big of you. From the way you were hanging off each other by the end of the night, I was thinking I might get Jeff all to myself."
Chris shoots him a look. "Is that what you want? If you had your way? Just Jeff?"
Dan Isn't really ready to answer that question, not even from Chris. "Wow, you'd switch teams just for me? You'd steal Evan away just so I could take his boyfriend? That's sweet man, really."
Dan knows that Chris recognizes the deflection, but he lets Dan get away with it. "That's the kind if friend I am, Dan. Maybe you should take a lesson - the next time I need a wingman in a straight bar, it wouldn't kill you to step up."
"Yeah, okay, I'll keep that on mind.”
Source: Out of the Darkness
“The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.”
“The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit”
“The three police departments I have filed police complaints to did not uphold them.”
“The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude