T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.”
“The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.”
“The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.”
“The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?”
“The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's conceited. Even smart girls do it.”
“The trouble with giving advice is that others want to return the favor.”
“The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.”
“The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.”
“The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.”
Source: Norma Jean, the termite queen
“The trouble with golf is that you are only as good as your last putt.”
“The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.”
“The trouble with good fortune is that people tend to equate it with personal goodness, so that if things are going well for us and as well for others, we think they must have done something to have brought it on themselves. We speak of ourselves as being blessed, what but what can that mean except that others are not blessed, and that God has picked out a few of us to love more? It is our responsibility to care for one another, to create fairness in the face of unfairness, and to find equality where none may have existed in the past.”
Source: Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
“The trouble with good fortune is that people tend to equate it with personal goodness, so that if things are going well for us and less well for others, we think they must have done something to have brought it on themselves. We speak of ourselves as being blessed, what but what can that mean except that others are not blessed, and that God has picked out a few of us to love more? It is our responsibility to care for one another, to create fairness in the face of unfairness, and to find equality where none may have existed in the past.”
“The trouble with good manners is that people are persuaded that you are all right, require no protection, are perfectly capable of looking after yourself.”
Source: Look at Me
“The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.”
“The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.”
“The trouble with happiness is people don't practice it.”
“The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.”
Source: Trust: A Novel
“The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.”
“The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.”
“The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.”
“The trouble with having a wired jaw is that you can never tell when you're sleepy. You can't yawn.”
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
Source: Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
“The trouble with him seems to be that he hasn't enough imagination.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables
“The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.”
Source: To Build a Fire
“The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe.”
Source: To Build a Fire
“The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved”
“The trouble with Hollywood is that it has poisoned us. If you see a poster of a movie it is mainly the picture of a woman and a man. Always a love story. Yes. But it shouldn't be that way. It should be another (way).”
“The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.”
“The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it.”
Source: Drown All the Dogs
“The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that they don’t love others enough. "The End of Anthropocentrism?”
Source: Utopias, Dolphins and Computers: Problems of Philosophical Plumbing
“The trouble with ‘if only’ is that it doesn’t change anything. It keeps the person facing the wrong way – backward instead of forward. It wastes time. In the end, if you let it become a habit, it can become a real roadblock – an excuse for not trying anymore.”
Source: A Touch of Wonder
“The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.”
“The trouble with imaginative people is that we're good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.”
“The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.”
“The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.”
Source: Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
“The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions.”
“The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.”
“The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.”
“The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.”
“The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.”
“The trouble with law is lawyers.”
“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.”
“The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.”
“The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.”
“The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.”
“The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.”
Source: The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel