T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre”
“The time to hesitate is through.”
“The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.”
Source: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
“The time to love is always and the place to live is now.”
“The time to make up your mind about people is never.”
“The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“The time to prepare for life’s disappointments and hurts is in advance.”
“The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.”
“The time to prepare is before you need it. Waiting until the storm hits only ensures you'll weather it poorly.”
“The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.”
“The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.”
Source: The Anatomy of Bibliomania
“The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.”
Source: The Anatomy of Bibliomania
“The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.”
Source: In One Person
“The time to recognize the power of community is here again. Not as some romanticized renaissance from times past, but as a necessarily new and innovative response to "life as it is offering itself to us."”
“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962
“The time to right the wrong ticks with precission.”
Source: The Mysterious Mandolin
“The time to save God's Dream is now. The people to save God's Dream are you.”
Source: Soultsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture
“The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.”
“The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.”
Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
“The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.”
“The time to stand up is when everyone is putting you down.”
“The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.”
“The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!”
“The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.”
“The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
“The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.”
“The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.”
“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”
Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey
“The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.”
Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer
“The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be overcome, the panic fear, 'Is that possible, then?' So it came about that gradually a piece was written, firmly and consciously, that wasn't in a definite key any more.”
“The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.”
“The time we are living in has its own conditions, peculiarities and standards”
“The time we are living in is a crucial time in the mind of God”
“The time we are living in is a significant time”
“The Time we learn what to unlearn is the time we grow up.”
“The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.”
Source: The Plain Speaker: The Key Essays
“The time we need in order to heal our wounds and finally manifest our deepest dreams is only as long as the gap between two thoughts. These are thoughts in polarity, such as separation and unity, conflict and peace, misery and joy, hate and love, etc. Since as human beings we are all capable of experiencing both thoughts, the only skill we need to develop involves mastering the GAP.”
“The time we spend caring about people and loving them could have also been used for manipulating and seducing.”
“The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.”
Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers
“The time we spent with our parents now turns to be memories when we leave one day. Spend well that when you leave its only the good ones that remain.”
“The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again.”
“The time we were together, we were the best we can be for each other.”
“The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.”
“The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.”
“The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.”
“The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.”
“The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.”