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 Russia is not that she is socialist but that she is Russia.”
Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.”
“The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any kind of creature imaginable. That's too big. It provides no focus for the artist. An artist needs, in order to function, some narrowing of focus. Usually, in the history of art, the narrower the focus in which the artist is forced to work, the greater the art.”
“The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.”
“The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.”
“The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.”
“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.”
“The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.”
“The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.”
“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”
“The trouble with space is, there's so much of it.
An ocean of blackness without any shore.
A neverending nothing.
And here, all alone in the million billion miles of midnight, is one solitary moving speck. A fragile parcel filled with sleeping people and their dreams.”
Source: Cakes in Space
“The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.”
Source: The Descent of Woman
“The trouble with stand-up is it sort of is you and yet it isn't you and it's incredibly hard not to take everything said about you personally. I would never Google my own name; I don't want to hear people being mean about me.”
“The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.”
Source: Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne
“The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.”
“the trouble with success is - it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!”
Source: The art of Ruth Draper: her dramas and characters
“The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.”
“The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.”
“The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.”
“The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.”
“The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.”
Source: Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms
“The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science, their labour bore fruit.”
“The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.”
“The trouble with test-based accountability is that it imposes serious consequences on children, educators, and schools on the basis of scores that may reflect measurement error, statistical error, random variation, or a host of environmental factors or student attributes. None of us would want to be evaluated - with our reputation and livelihood on the line - solely on the basis of an instrument that is prone to error and ambiguity. The tests now in use are not adequate by themselves to the task of gauging the quality of schools or teachers ... they must be used with awareness of their limitations and variability. They were not designed to capture the most important dimensions of education, for which we do not have measures.”
Source: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
“The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.”
“The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.”
“The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?”
“The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.”
Source: How to Get from January to December
“The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.”
“The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times.”
Source: The Green Man
“The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.”
“The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.”
Source: The Wandering Years
“The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.”
“The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either.”
“The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.”
“The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.”
“The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.”
“The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.”
“The trouble with the nations of the West is that they are young, fickle, foolish and wealthy.”
Source: OUR WOMEN
“The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.”
Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world
“The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.”
“The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.”
“The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.”
“The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.”
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
“The trouble with the rat race is that if you win, you're still a rat.”
“The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.”
“The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.”
Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
“The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.”
“The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.”