T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.”
Source: Seven Essays
“The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.”
“The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.”
Source: Counter-Currents
“The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.”
“The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.”
“The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“The wellbeing of my loved ones is more important to me than what the society thinks of me.”
Source: Woman Over World: The Novel
“The wellbeing of the heart of humanity does not
rely on practicality, logicality and factuality
alone. Fiction is needed, placebo is needed, and
you know what else is needed - a whole lot of
impractical and absurd unselfishness.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.”
“The wellness remembers the deep living of the wound, & so is happier than any easy health.”
Source: Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles
“The wellspring of empathy lies in the depths of self-awareness.
Only by understanding the intricacies of our own being can we begin to grasp the kaleidoscope of emotions and experiences that color the lives of others.”
“The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark race who were the original possessors of the island, who never mixed with the invaders coming later from the east, but were slowly driven into the western mountains.”
Source: I Can't Stay Long
“The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.”
Source: The world of Evelyn Waugh
“The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?”
“The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times”
“The werewolf film is a strange thing.”
“The werewolf from the next row over and five trailers down had slipped his leash again, howling bloody murder and knocking over the neighbors’ trash cans.”
Source: 13 County Road 666
“The werewolf has been romanced and watered down until there's nothing left to fear. I wanted to give it back its teeth.”
Source: Shadow of the Wolves: book 1 of 3
“The werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.”
“The werewolf paid cash, sliding the change into the hip pocket of his jeans.”
Source: Spirit on Fire
“The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.”
“The Wessely School rejects the significant body of biomedical evidence demonstrating that chronic “fatigue” or “tiredness” is not the same as the physiological exhaustion seen in ME/CFS and persists in believing that they have the right to demand a level of “evidence‐based” definitive proof that ME/CFS is not an “aberrant belief” as they assert, when their biopsychosocial model of “CFS/ME” that perpetuates their own aberrant belief about the nature of ME/CFS has been exposed by other psychiatrists as being nothing but a myth.”
“The West - the very words go straight to that place of the heart where Americans feel the spirit of pride in their western heritage - the triumph of personal courage over any obstacle, whether nature or man.”
Source: The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon
“The West and its media have barely covered the recent wave of repression in Turkey. The reason is simple. They are paying billions to Ankara to control and take back the refugees of the Syrian war. They are fearful that if they offend Tayyip Erdogan he will use the refugees as a political weapon. So they keep quiet.”
“The West appears to have decided for the Ukrainian people what their choice is. The EU does not condemn violent actions in Ukraine which are punishable in the West.”
“The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.”
“The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.”
“The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.”
“The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation.”
Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
“The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself”
Source: M. Butterfly
“The West broke the world, now the human race gotta resurrect the world, offspring of the terrorists and terrorized alike - but we can do nothing at all, till we decolonize our mind.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“The West can only try to destroy Russia and China internally, through horrendous sets of tricks, propaganda and toxic lies. But now even such a scenario is unlikely.”
“The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live.”
“The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.”
“The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and I’m a WMD—I’ve got so much energy I’m about to explode.”
Source: See What Flowers
“The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.”
“The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.”
“The West doesn't have to love us. In fact, we should ask ourselves more often why people are so suspicious of us. After all, the West isn't a charity organization. How have we been perceived for centuries? As a huge, warlike realm ruled by despots - first by the czars and then Bolsheviks. Why should anyone have loved us? If we want to be accepted, we have to do something in return. And it's an art that we have yet to master.”
“The West exploited Africa and now it wants to save it. We have been living with this hypocrisy for too long. Africa can only be saved by Africans.”
“The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.”
Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition
“The West found an excuse for every incident and boxed and labeled it under the context of the country in which it took place. They attributed Iran’s conflict and the victory of Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini to an inner conflict within Iran. They considered the Lebanese war a civil war among factions. They considered the overall Arab-Israeli conflict a Palestinian-versus-Israeli conflict over land. Yet in all these conflicts radical Islam was the driving force or lingered just under the surface.”
Source: Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
“The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.”
“The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.”
“The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.”
“The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.”
“The West has begun to learn about Zen when it is already on the way to disintegration.”
Source: Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice
“The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.”
“The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.”
“The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free.”