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, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.”
“The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.”
Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“The truth is, if you are a woman saving 10% of your income for retirement, and you put it in the bank account, your chances of retiring well - living on 90% of your pre-retirement income for your full life - is 0%.”
“The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.”
“The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.”
“The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
“The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.”
Source: Toward The Future
“The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.”
“The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.”
“The truth is, it's very hard looking back... we look at holocaust now with such knowledge and such a sense of the horror of what it was, that it's hard to believe even now that in 1930s and 1940s, before something like this had happened, that it could be impossible to imagine the extent of this horror.”
“The truth is, I’d give it all up to be a rock star.”
“The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.”
“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”
Source: Taltos: Lives of the Mayfair Witches
“The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.”
“The truth is, most celebrities are doing the same things most other people are doing every day... work, have dinner, hang out with your friends when you can, try and keep up with the crazy world we're living in and squeeze in some zzz's. There's not nearly as much stealing and obsessing and middle-of-the-night secret calls to ex-boyfriends and scheming and cheating [as they lead you to believe]. Most of it's just bulls - t, however entertaining.”
“The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men.”
“The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.”
“The truth is, my dad was a great driver. I mean, he could handle an automobile. He loved speed. He used to joke that his one regret was he didn't join the volunteer fire service so he could drive the ambulance.”
“The truth is, my experience in matters sexual is limited.”
Source: The Llama Parlour
“The truth is, my father stopped bothering me after Stigmata, because I got to play a priest. That fulfilled his dream. The cop thing was a little overdone to him because my brother was already a police officer.”
“The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.”
“The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.”
“The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.”
Source: The Story of My Life
“The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.”
“The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.”
“The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.”
“The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.”
“The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.”
“The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows . Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.”
Source: Precepts and Judgments
“The truth is, normal might take years. Normal might never happen. But it’s definitely not going to happen if I lounge around here watching soaps and avoiding life. I’m going to school today, end of story.”
Source: Silence
“The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.”
“The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.”
“The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.”
“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You're still tainted with that brush. I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law'.”
“The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.”
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”
“The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”
“The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated.”
“The truth is, people don't stay the same. People either get better or they get worse.”
Source: Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation: How to Harness the Power of Hypnosis to Ignite Effortless and Lasting Change
“The truth is, people go to shows because they want a show. They want showbiz. When people talk about a show they saw it's not because they heard a song, it's because they were excited and geared up about the show.”
“The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.”
“The truth is, rarely can a response make something better - what makes something better is connection.”
“The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.”
“The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.”
“The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.”
“The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go... if it's not a part of your God-given destiny.”
“The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.”