T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The traditional wisdom when dealing with poltergeist phenomena is to keep an eye out for adolescent children in the vicinity.”
Source: Fables from the Fountain
“The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.”
“The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understand more clearly the circumstances with contributed to the formation of character. The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes - when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all outward conventionalities. Therefore it is well to know what were the chains of daily domestic habit which were the natural leading-strings of our forefathers before they learnt to go alone.”
Source: Ruth
“The traditions of Hollywood are grand and great and are going to survive forever, in a way. But they're not going to be the only way for much longer. The technology is such now that you don't have to have millions of dollars to make a movie. You can make one with a computer.”
“The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.”
“The traffic is as insane as ever. It’s like everyone in London chooses this specific route every morning. I can never get used to it.”
Source: Professor's Secret Baby
“The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.”
“The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.”
Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
“The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.”
“The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.”
“The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.”
“The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your very eyes.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere in the annals of man, would her name appear: no local habitation, no name. There are girls like that, he thought, and those you love most, the ones where there is no hope because it has eluded you at the very moment you close your hands around it.”
Source: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s
“The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world.
The question is not whether they know the Word of God....
The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?”
“The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.”
“The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life
walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the
same economic situation, the same national background and
education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all
humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our
restricted and impoverished lives.”
“The tragedy in the lives of the people is in what does not happen, rather than in what does happen -in all they do not realise.
Ethel Carnie -Miss Nobody”
“The tragedy is not failure but lack of faith.”
“The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.”
“The tragedy is not that anger appears. The tragedy is how quickly it convinces us that it is righteous. That it is necessary. That it is the only language left. In its heat, we forget that clarity does not live in flames. Flames only show us what can burn.”
Source: THE SELF WAS SIMPLY IN THE WAY
“The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.”
“The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.”
“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”
“The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”
Source: Notebooks, 1951-1959
“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”
Source: Hannibal
“The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.”
“The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.”
“The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians - and Christian conservatives most significantly -unwittingly embrace some of the most corrosive aspects of the cultural disintegration they decry. By nurturing its resentments, sustaining them through a discourse of negation toward outsiders, and in cases, pursuing their will to power, they become functional Nietzscheans, participating in the very cultural breakdown they so ardently strive resist.”
“The tragedy is that many of us are living desperate Christian life. Sunday comes and we get some strength, and then we lose some on Monday; a good deal is gone by Tuesday and we wonder whether we have anything left. On Wednesday it has all gone and then we exist. Or perhaps refreshment comes in some other way, some meeting we attend, some friends we meet. Now that is the old order of things, that is not the new. He puts a well within us. We are not always drawing from somewhere outside. The well, the spring, goes on springing up from within into everlasting life.”
“The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability”
“The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures.”
Source: You Can Win : A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.”
“The tragedy is that thinking men, so-called intellectuals, seem to threaten the electorate. We have in this country an anti-intellectual strain that scares the bejesus out of me. Don't we want a bright man? Don't we want a creative man? Must we always have these hacks?”
Source: Myrna Loy: being and becoming
“The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.”
“The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.”
Source: Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females
“The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.”
“The tragedy is what - given the 'right circumstances,' - normal decent folks, like you and me, will do. This is what makes me worry whenever looking on the road that Israel entered and shows no intention of leaving.”
“The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.”
“The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.”
“The Tragedy isn't Autism - The Tragedy is the lack of understanding of Autism, Lack of resources, Interventions not being met with the person in mind and Assumptions being made about the person.”
“The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach”
“The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.”
“The tragedy of a human is that it has divided one God, in several religions and sects even it does not follow the teachings and instructions of God.”
“The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that certain deer in paleontological times succumbed as they acquired overly-heavy horns. The mutations must be considered blind, they work, are thrown forth, without any contact of interest with their environment. In depressive states, the mind may be seen in the image of such an antler, in all its fantastic splendour pinning its bearer to the ground.”
“The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.”
“The tragedy of African identity & ancestry is not its loss, but how proudly we celebrate its replacement.”
“The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.”