T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The whole crew sat on the deck, without a storm or a monster attack to worry about for the first time in days, and ate ice cream. Well, except for Frank, who was lactose intolerant. He got an apple.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“The whole cultural diversity and musical diversity, I think they almost go hand in hand, you know? It's like a mind space or a it's having an open mind to what else is out there.”
“The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.”
“The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.”
“The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States and, even the 'shock and awe' of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.”
“The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.”
“The whole damn world could burn, and I would still love you. When everything dissipates, you're the only thing I see. You've always been.”
Source: The General
“The whole damned country was depending on me.”
Source: Joe Louis: My Life
“The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.”
“The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.”
“The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“The whole decision to do my show was that I was trying to "true up" my work life and my personal life and I wanted the principles in both of them to be the same. And the only way that I could think of to do that was to make a show about exploring cultures through food that demonstrated those principles with every story that we told.”
“The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.”
Source: The Stones of Venice
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
Source: Works, ed. by G.K. Chesterton and W. Jerrold. 22 vols.
“The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are accountable. The problem with leaving it to activists and non-governmental organizations-even with the tool of the Internet at their disposal-is that those organizations and those people don't have the legal right to compel corporations to disclose information, and that is something that governments can do.”
“The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.”
“The whole discord of this world consists in discords.”
“The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.”
“The whole dissident idea attracts a lot of crazies. And then all of a sudden, without realizing it, you've become one of them.”
“The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.”
Source: Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife
“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.”
“The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.”
“The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist, and that those other worlds must contain experiences which have a meaning for our life also; and that although in the main their experiences and those of this world keep discrete, yet the two become continuous at certain points, and higher energies filter in.”
Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.”
“The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.”
“The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.”
Source: Wagner on Conducting
“The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.”
Source: the elements of style
“The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.”
“The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'”
“The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no
opinion about things I don’t understand.”
Source: Three Lives
“The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.”
“The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.”
“The whole duty of our existence is fear God.”
“The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.”
“The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God. ... I do not worship matter. I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake, who willed to take His abode in matter, who worked out my salvation through matter. Never will I cease honoring the matter which wrought my salvation! I honor it, but not as God. Because of this I salute all remaining matter with reverence, because God has filled it with his grace and power. Through it my salvation has come to me.”
“The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.”
“The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.”
“The whole earth is the brave man's country.
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]”
“The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)
“The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.”
“The whole earth, then, belongs to Jesus. It belongs to him by right of creation, by right of redemption and by right of future inheritance - as Paul affirms in the magnificent cosmic declaration of Colossians 1:15-20. So wherever we go in his name, we are walking on his property. There is not an inch of the planet that does not belong to Christ. Mission then is an authorized activity carried out by tenants on the instructions of the owner of the property.”
Source: The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative
“The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the strips of cloud began to vary Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope As if to show a cope beyond the cope!”
“The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.”
“The whole economy would be much healthier if it would transition to an asset-based economy rather than a credit-based one.”
“The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot. Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. Norman Mailer and Vidal, the same thing. The bestselling writers now, there's no great animal energy with them.”
“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
Source: Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
“The whole effect of activity is to enrich the feeling of the other.”
“The whole end of speech is to be understood.”
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS