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 most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.”
“The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.”
“The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.”
“The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have generally failed to distinguish between the relatively easy process of being creative in the abstract and the infinitely more difficult process of being innovationist in the concrete.”
“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.”
“The trouble with music was that in some way it was too nostalgic...every tune seemed to exist with its notes firmly rooted in an event or an emotion or a period of time.”
Source: The Black Moon
“The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.”
“The trouble with never is never, never works.”
“The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.”
“The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.”
Source: The Trouble with Nigeria
“The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.”
Source: The Trouble with Nigeria
“The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.”
Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.”
“The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.”
“The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.”
“The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.”
“The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.”
Source: Little Town on the Prairie
“The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.”
“The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”
“The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.”
“The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
“The trouble with parents is they remember the things you don’t want them to remember. Then the things you want them to remember, they forget." Kosi Kamsi”
Source: My Name Is Kosi Kamsi
“The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“The trouble with people is they don't understand people.”
Source: Nightfall: A Library of America eBook Classic
“The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.”
“The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing.”
Source: A Severed Head
“The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.”
“The trouble with plastic surgery is that after 10 years, gravity wins out and you have to have another one in a year or so.”
“The trouble with plays these days is that they're too easy to understand.”
“The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.”
Source: Killosophy
“The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.”
Source: The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems
“The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much apology for liberal policy failures. Too much pandering to liberal candidates and causes.”
“The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.”
“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”
“The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.”
“The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.”
“The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.”
“The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.”
“The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything”
“The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.”
Source: The Sirens Sang of Murder
“The trouble with real life is, there's no reset button.”
Source: Drowned Hopes
“The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.”
“The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.”
“The trouble with records is that they're too short.”
“The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.”
“The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.”
“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.”
“The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons, due to unavoidable circumstances, because it feels as if there's no other choice. And once you break one, the rest seem like so much broken glass. The damage is already done.”
Source: The Rules