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 the transfer window is it creates a window where transfers have to be done”
“The trouble with the truth is this: we can't always control when it comes.”
Source: Tell Me Something Good
“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.”
“The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.”
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
“The trouble with the world is that you forget that there are good people in it.”
Source: Forbidden Fruit
“The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.”
Source: A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
“The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.”
“The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.”
“The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.”
“The trouble with these times wasn't even really the individual scenarios or men themselves, but the societal conditioning that surrounded our two bodies. I would put pressure on myself, for I had been socialised to please, socialised to find it easier to get it over and done with. The men would be socialised to seek pleasure first, to touch before asking. I would usually be seeking validation or a way to rewrite the endings of my own traumatic past. These unplaceable times would often find our gendered selves falling into our written roles. Was it the drink leading us to lazily fit our stereotypes, or perhaps the inherent pressure of modern intimacy?”
Source: The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture
“The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.”
Source: The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)
“The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.”
“The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.”
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."”
Source: Dodsworth
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.”
“The trouble with this country...is that we are utterly surrounded by busybodies trying to stop us doing things. Or telling us what to do...Big Brother, with his ubiquitous closed-circuit cameras-which now monitored, it seemed, every square inch of public space-and his condescending imprecations and warnings, was everywhere...In his view, it was up to the individual whether or not to approach a cliff edge; it was not the Government's business.”
Source: Bertie Plays the Blues
“The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.”
Source: One Arm and Other Stories
“The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.”
“The trouble with today is, things are a little easy. Teens don't feel as if anyone needs them or their talent, and that's wrong. We need them. They are the future. And if I can encourage them to think about the sciences as something they could do, then I think I've done a good job.”
“The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.”
“The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.”
“The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.”
“The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.”
“The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.”
“The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.”
“The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.”
“The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.”
“The trouble with us is that we've preached a 'cross' religion, and we need to preach a 'throne' religion. By that I mean that people have thought they were supposed to remain at the cross. Some have received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, have backed up to the cross, and have stayed there ever since...The cross is actually a place of defeat, whereas the Resurrection is a place of triumph. When you preach the cross, you're preaching death, and you leave people in death.”
“The trouble with water-and there is trouble with water-is that they're not making any more of it. They're not making any less, mind, but no more either. There is the same amount of water in the planet now as there was in prehistoric times.”
Source: Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
“The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.”
“The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.”
“The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.”
“The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.”
“The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.”
“The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.”
“The trouble with women? Elbows.”
“The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough.”
“The trouble with words is that you can really talk yourself into a corner. You can't fuck yourself into a corner.
"That's a man talking," muttered Hana.”
Source: The English Patient
“The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.”
“The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.”
Source: Groucho And Me
“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
“The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.”
“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”
Source: Endless night
“The trouble with you, Charles, is that basically you despise women, whereas I, in spite of some appearances to the contrary, do not."
"I don't despise women. I was in love with all Shakespeare's heroines before I was twelve."
"But they don't exist, dear man, that's the point. They live in the never-never land of art, all tricked out in Shakespeare's wit and wisdom, and mock us from there, filling us with false hopes and empty dreams. The real thing is spite and lies and arguments about money.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here [in hell]; whereas you are merely the most numerous.”
Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don’t even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, you’ll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you call all that passionate, wonderful stuff that makes you feel alive inside.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“The trouble with you," Parvathi said with a wisdom beyond her years, "Is that you don't know who you want to be. Girl or boy. Chinese or Malay."
"Ya-lah you!" Fatima said. "No wonder the kids in your school call you OCBC."
There was a bank in Singapore called the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation, or OCBC in short. So some cruel kid in school played on the initials of the bank to make fun of Peranakans.
They jeered, "Orang Cina Bukan Cina." The words translated as Chinese person, not Chinese.”
Source: Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965