T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The truth is there's so many great TV shows out there now that none of us take absence of awards personally. The most important feedback is the feedback we get from the fans.”
“The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's great when everybody can know where everything came from. It's important for the legacy of them.”
“The truth is, these disturbers of our peace have always been friends, strange though it may sound. Their origins were protective and beneficent and that remains their current aim, even when they seem to go about it in a misguided way.”
Source: The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
“The truth is, these parts of you are trying to help. They developed to protect you from pain, rejection, or uncertainty. But over time, their strategies may become outdated—like using dial-up internet in a fiber-optic world.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor
“The truth is this is a very dangerous world.”
“The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will simply invert the power structure to suit their needs. They will come out on top no matter what. Stuyvesant was hard but hopeful; Oberlin, on the other hand, reminds me yet again how the world works. I guess that's why they call it an education.”
Source: Little Failure: A Memoir
“The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.”
“The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.”
Source: Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space
“The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.”
“The truth is to be lived, not just mouthed.”
“The truth is: to become a Christian is to become, humanly speaking, unhappy for this life; the proportion is: the more you involve yourself with God and the more he loves you, the more you will become, humanly speaking, unhappy for this life, the more you will come to suffer in this life”
Source: The Essential Kierkegaard
“The truth is true wherever you find it. Remember, sugar is sweet whether you find it in a sugar bowl or a dust pan.”
“The truth is ugly. It's a demon with razor-sharp teeth and talons that will shred you to bloody little pieces. Their lies are shrouded in beauty, attractive and believable to the average person. But with time, the people blind to the Society's transgressions will witness that pretty layer being ripped away, revealing the demon that's coming for them, too.”
Source: Pretty Lies
“The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.”
“The truth is uncompromising.”
“The truth is undeniable. You tell somebody the truth, it's undeniable.”
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“The truth is useless if no one can hear it.”
Source: False Gods
“The truth is usually inappropriate.”
Source: These Shallow Graves
“The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.”
Source: The Lives of Others: Discover the Hidden Lives of Some of Our Favorite Atria Authors
“The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white.”
“The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.”
“The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.”
“The truth is WE ALL ACHE. WE ALL HAVE GROWING PAINS and wonder if WE ARE OKAY adn enough + loved. THE THING IS - WE ARE. REALLY. WITHOUT the silver shoes and lepord print sheet. WE ARE ENOUGH WITHOUT all the things we buy to make us much more than we are or need to be we are simple and complex and rare as is.”
“The Truth is, we all get lost as we try to find our way. Perhaps the key is to stop, take a look around and enjoy the scenery as we go.”
Source: Getting Lost
“The truth is we all get tired, we all get weary. In fact, if you never feel like giving up, then your dreams are too small. If you never feel like quitting, then you need to set some larger goals. When that pressure comes to get discouraged and to think about how you can’t take it anymore, that is completely normal. Every person feels that way at times.”
“The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings
“the truth is we are all horrible bosses at some point and we must dance with that truth with ease and grace and be gentle with ourselves”
Source: Corporate Code: Bottom Up Perspective on Great Leadership
“The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.”
Source: Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
“The truth is, we are one nation, under fraud.
Tell us, honestly:
Will we ever be who we say.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry: Poems
“The truth is, we die a little every day. Yet somewhere between the ashes and the dawn, We must learn the quiet art of being reborn— And dare to love again.”
Source: In Love Is Death
“The truth is we don't know the truth. We just live and learn how to tell the truth because we were born liars.”
“The truth is we have a political system and an economic system controlled by a few extremely wealthy people. Not Barack Obama, not Bernie Sanders, no one person has the influence by himself or herself to take on this enormous array of power unless millions of people begin to work together to demand changes.”
“The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.”
Source: Grace and Truth: A Holy Pursuit
“The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.”
“The truth is we're all dying, the lie is we're all living.”
“The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other.”
“The truth is, we should be glad that China is making solar panels cheaply—it makes these products more affordable for Americans and the billion-plus people on the planet who don’t currently get electricity and would otherwise turn to dirty planet-cooking coal, oil, or gas to get it.”
Source: Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and Our Planet from Dirty Energy
“The truth is, we tend to train people how we want to be treated. If others know you have wishy-washy boundaries then they are free to walk all over you; the results…you become a doormat. We have actually trained others to do this when we will allow people to wipe their muddy feet on us. After all, we are doormats.”
“The truth is, we've all become plastic people — malleable, disposable, and increasingly artificial with each iteration. We accept new versions of fakeness like software updates, constantly upgrading our personas while remaining fundamentally committed to the same buggy operating system of human nature.
Look at Me: A Field Guide to Self-Deception”
“The truth is: we were a bunch of lanky kids falling awkwardly on curbs in the middle of nowhere. But for the first time I felt fucking cool. Like I had a crew. Like I belonged.”
Source: Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir
“The truth is we will be forever haunted by traceable communications manifested in the digital world.”
“The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.”
“The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it’s exhausting to get them out in the right order.” He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she’d heard one. She raised an eyebrow.”
Source: The Castle Behind Thorns
“The truth is what hurts”
“The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength”
Source: Oedipus the King
“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain."
-Maven Calore”
Source: Red Queen
“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
“The truth is 'what is.' If 'what is' is, you have to sleep eight, ten hours a day, that is the truth. A lie will be: People need no sleep at all. Truth is 'what is.' If every politician from the beginning is crooked, there is no crooked. But if you are concerned with a lie, 'what should be'-and 'what should be' is a fantasy, a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago: This is what should be-and no one ever saw what should be, that you don't need any sleep and you can go seven years without sleep, so that all the people were made to measure up to that dirty lie. You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never a truth.”
Source: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
“The truth is what it is to who holds it.”