T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The tragedy of our age is that even the educational system and world system is set up in such a way that you will not even know that you were created for something”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.”
“The tragedy of our time is that we have smart people trapped in dumb jobs”
Source: The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace
“The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust; rags to rags; fear to fear.”
Source: The Mimic Men
“The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.”
“The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.”
“The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.”
Source: A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
“The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself as the sacrifice required by the justice of God if man was to be redeemed.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“The tragedy of some relationships was realizing how much healthier you are without them.”
“The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.”
“The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.”
“The tragedy of the gifted is the belief they are entitled to greatness. As a human, you are entitled only to death.”
Source: Dark Age
“The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.”
Source: The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going
“The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.”
Source: American Pastoral
“The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.”
“The Tragedy of the Ordinary
The ordinariness is tragic—
Not because it happens all over again,
But when it doesn’t, it hurts every day.”
Source: The Willow Song
“The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?”
Source: Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor
“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.”
Source: Aims of Education
“The tragedy of the young generation's "radicals" is that they dogmatically refuse to begin with the world as it is. But the only world we have is the world as it is, and we have to begin with that.
Any social changer, throughout history, has always known that you begin from where you are. Change can only be effected through power, and power means organization. Organization can be built only around issues which are specific, immediate, and realizable.”
Source: Reveille for Radicals
“The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.”
“The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”
Source: Einstein’s Dreams
“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.”
“The tragedy of too many people is that they cannot allow happiness just to be there; they cannot leave it alone. Their sense of who they are and of what their destiny is cannot accommodate happiness. So they are drive to find ways to sabotage it.”
“The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason?”
“The tragedy that devastated millions of hearts embodies our national strength. We develop our futures and train our kids for a fight against those who want to undermine the education system itself.
Pakistanis are a strong and resilient people who inspire us to dream for the best, persist for the best, and accomplish the unachievable.
In honor of the 144 martyred children. We stand in prayer, rekindling our confidence that we will not back down from our aims or give in to those who endanger our children's future.
Hold your kids closer. Pray for their well-being. He is the finest judge and protector.”
“The tragedy was not in death, but in the silence that followed — in the void that cannot be filled, in the shadow that lingers even after the light is gone.”
Source: Symphony of Solitude: A Novel about Mr. Ford
“The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.”
“The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.”
“The tragic effects of terrorism have forced the new-construction industry to re-evaluate traditional methods of fire protection in commercial infrastructures. That includes everything from building codes, to structural design issues and the less durable fireproofing materials currently specified for commercial steel structures.”
“The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.”
“The tragic end of Julius Caesar, who destroyed the Republic, has never had a deterrent effect on the aspiring dictators who came after him in history! Because dictatorship is a mental illness. Even if you tell a rabid dog not to bite, it will still bite because it is sick, rabies is a disease, dictatorship is a disease! Once you give authority to the dictator, you can't take it back. If you don’t want to destroy him like Brutus, never give him authority, this way you will save his life and the lives of others! The most humane cure for dictatorship is not to give it authority!”
“The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.”
“The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.”
“The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it.”
“The tragic irony of modern anti-fascism is that the more successful it is, the more its raison d'etre is called into question. Its greatest successes lie in hypothetical limbo: How many murderous fascist movements have been nipped in the bud over the past 70 years by antifa groups before their violence could metastasize? We will never know--and that's a very good thing indeed.”
Source: Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
“The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.”
“The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.”
“The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.”
“The tragic sense of life has its origin in our determination to carry off two incompatible, but equally serious, ambitions: to search for meaning and to face reality. An intense, unceasing demand for meaning - the longing for life to make benevolent, beautiful sense - is coupled with the dawning, appalling fact that it does not, in the end, make sense in that way. Tragedy is the name for horror seen against the backdrop of love.
This is an area in which civilization does not reduce our suffering - does not make life more pleasing or comfortable. What is the achievement of tragedy? It is to present the deepest sorrows of the human condition: what we love is terribly vulnerable; each life is a brief, scarring moment in the wastes of eternity; our transient existence will be marked by depression, confusion, and fear ... The ambition of tragedy is to hold such intelligent fears in a ceremonial act endowed with splendour and grace.
The ceremony does not overcome our fears. But, unlike horror, it does not seek to stoke anxiety. The tragic view is, really, a determination to hold on to nobility, love and beauty - even while knowing the worst about ourselves.”
Source: In Search of Civilization
“The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The tragic style of Aeschylus (I use the word "style" in the sense it receives in sculpture, and not in the exclusive signification of the manner of writing,) is grand, severe, and not unfrequently hard: that of Sophocles is marked by the most finished symmetry and harmonious gracefulness: that of Euripides is soft and luxuriant; overflowing in his easy copiousness, he often sacrifices the general effect to brilliant passages. The analogies which the undisturbed development of the fine arts among the Greeks everywhere furnishes, will enable us, throughout to compare the epochs of tragic art with those of sculpture. Aeschylus is the Phidias of Tragedy, Sophocles her Polycletus, and Euripides her Lysippus. Phidias formed sublime images of the gods, but lent them an extrinsic magnificence of material, and surrounded their majestic repose with images of the most violent struggles in strong relief. Polycletus carried his art to perfection of proportion, and hence one of his statues was called the Standard of Beauty. Lysippus distinguished himself by the fire of his works; but in his time Sculpture had deviated from its original destination, and was much more desirous of expressing the charm of motion and life than of adhering to ideality of form.”
Source: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
“The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.”
“The Tragically Hip, more so than any other band I've worked with, approach their work like a team. This might sound way too pat, but they're like a great hockey team: all five of them have their roles. They go at their shows like an athletic event; they're in it to win it, and they'll lay it out there on the proverbial ice in order to win and get the crowd on their side. You can't do that when you just throw a band together. There's a sixth sense there that makes it easy.”
“The tragicomic paradox of satire: its targets often embrace their caricature, mistaking ridicule for recognition, choosing self-affirmation’s blue pill over truth’s sting, as a primate, blind to their own reflection.”