T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.”
Source: Paper Towns
“The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.”
“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”
“The true object of human life is play.”
“The true object of loyalty is a good legal constitution, which, as it condemns every instance of oppression and lawless power, derives a certain remedy to the sufferer by allowing him to remonstrate his grievances, and pointing out methods of relief when the gentle arts of persuasion have lost their efficacy.”
“The true object of religion is to bind mankind together, and to bind them all to God. If we see that in the name of religion, men, instead of promoting peace on earth and good-will among men, are trying to show their antagonism and animosity towards each other, then certainly we must stand forward with our voice of protest, and say that religion is defeating its own legitimate object.”
“The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.”
Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…
“The true objective is independence: for a child to reach the point where they can regulate their own intake of food and to choose the things that will do them good while giving them pleasure. Weaning them off milk is one thing. But the real task for a parent is to wean children off needing you.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“The true objective of war is peace.”
Source: The Art of War
“The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.”
Source: Lift Up Your Eyes: The Religious Writings of Leo Tolstoy
“The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.”
“The True One was there from time immemorial.
He is there today and ever there you will find.
He never died nor will he ever die. ...
Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.”
“The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.”
“The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.”
Source: The drama of the gifted child
“The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….”
Source: The Optimist Creed
“The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.”
“The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.”
“The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.”
“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
Source: Time regained
“The true passion of a person is in the deeper glow of a look.”
“The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
“The true path of life leads through the narrow valley of grandeur.”
“The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global”
“The true path to success is to find your joy and share it with others.”
Source: The Essentials of Life
“The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.”
“The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.”
Source: The tyranny of gun control
“The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.”
Source: The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
“The true penance comes when God takes away the soul's health and strength for doing penance. Even though I have mentioned elsewhere the great pain this lack causes, the pain is much more intense here. All these things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.”
“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”
“The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.”
“The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.”
“The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.”
“The true person is
Not anyone in particular;
But like the deep blue color
Of the limitless sky,
It is everyone,
Everywhere in the world.”
“The true philosopher and the true poet are one,
and a beauty, which is truth,
and a truth, which is beauty,
is the aim of both.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
“The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair.”
Source: Mike at Wrykyn
“The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.”
“The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.”
Source: The Eustace diamonds
“The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.”
Source: Illuminations
“The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!”
“The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.”
Source: The Newcomes : memoirs of a most respectable family
“The true pleasure of living is hidden in the heart of a man,
So whatever you do, do it heartily, and you'll be happy! :)”
“The true poem rests between the words.”
“The true poet dreams being awake.”
Source: Essays of Elia
“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.”
“The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.”
“The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.”
“The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.”
“The true poet is of the hero type, soaring above sensual gratification and rational formulas. The language of poetry has the potential for generating cosmic visions and the optimism of a regenerative belief system.”
“The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.”