T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.”
“The Victorian grey and black stone building had been filled with a combination of exquisite stonework and gumdrop. This exterior finish had an ominous feel to it, with its construction dating back to the early 1900s.”
Source: The De-Coding of Jo: Hall of Ignorance
“The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But they were associated with all this [Victorian] stuffiness.”
“The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.”
“The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their courageous, intellectually adventurous side, their greedy and inhuman side, their superbly poetic side, their morally pretentious side, their tea and buttered toast side, and their champagne and Skittles side. Much like ourselves, in fact, though rather dirtier.”
“The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.”
Source: Full Dark House
“The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.”
Source: Leacock on Life
“The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).”
“The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.”
“The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.”
“The victories are what I judge things on.”
“The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later; the defeated army seeks battle first and seeks victory later.”
Source: The Art of War
“The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.”
“The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. What he is or is not no longer concerns him. He believes that he has been crucified with Christ and he is not willing either to praise or deprecate such a man.”
“The victorious life of a Christian depends on His correct thinking that is based on the word of God”
“The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.”
Source: The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325
“The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.”
“The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.”
“The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart.”
“The victory is when I realize that I can't do it on my own.”
“The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.”
“The victory of a reactionary idea is always a defeat for humanity!”
“The victory of an eagle is not in its wings. It is in its mentality. It believes in the power of its wings, and that is why it soars majestically.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.”
“The victory of endurance born.”
“The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas's victory.”
“The victory of humanity over man.
Humanity had conquered the inhuman.
And by what means? In what way? How had it overcome the giant of anger and hatred? What arms had it used? What engine of war? The cradle.”
Source: Ninety-three
“The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.”
“The victory of Mr. Kostunica will be a reality.”
“The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!”
“The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.”
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.”
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.”
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.”
“The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.”
Source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
“The victory of the finite possibility over infinity is the birth of life and existence.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The victory of the ignorant masses always means a temporary backward movement in the progression of humanity!”
“The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.”
“The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.”
“The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.”
“The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The victory over self is centered entirely on the surrender of self to the God from whom the entirety of oneself finds itself.”
“The victory that overcomes the world is faith in God.”
“The victory was sealed at an empty tomb. Therefore, we must remember that the remaining battles are victory concluding, not victory in question.”
“The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute”
“The victory's in believing.”
Source: Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole
“The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.”
“The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true.”