T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.”
“The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are movies where voiceover works really well because it does something more than exposition; it actually becomes a tonal element of the movie.”
“The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.”
Source: Spiritual Direction and Meditation
“The whole purpose of the Absolute is contained much more in the meaning of existence than in the existence itself, regardless of meaning. The meaning and purpose of existence is the experience of life. Therefore, we cannot apodictically state, as Schopenhauer, that the driving force of the whole Universe is the will (or energy) per any cost but rather the meaning. Not everything is aware of its existence and life, but it serves life as a whole.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The whole purpose of the Bible, it seems to me, is to convince people to set the written word down in order to become living words in the world for God’s sake. For me, this willing conversion of ink back to blood is the full substance of faith.”
Source: Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
“The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.”
Source: The River of Winged Dreams
“The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.”
“The whole purpose of the winepress
is to preserve the grapes. Accept
Pressing moments. What you
accomplish in a moment of pressure
will be used forever.”
Source: Life Capsules
“The whole purpose of water baptism is to give the Jew an opportunity to humble himself before God through confession of sin. I say confession rather than repentance, because true repentance is rejection of the carnal mind in favor of the Christ mind. This is only possible if Christ, our new mind, is formed in us. John knew this and the Jews understood it also.”
Source: The Truth About Baptism
“The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.”
“The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.”
“The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They are also quite pragmatic and practical and they make you more efficient at living and working in the world.”
“The whole question is; "How precious is he to us now?" If we do not think much of him, then of course to give him anything at all, however small will seem to us a wicked waste. But when he is really precious to our souls nothing will be too good, nothing too costly for him; everything we have, our dearest, our most priceless treasure, we shall pour out upon him, and we shall not count it a shame to have done so.”
Source: The Normal Christian Life
“The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.”
Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.”
“The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.”
Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter
“The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.”
Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence
“The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.”
“The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.”
“The whole race, which is now called Gallic or Galatic,is madly fond of war,high-spirited and quick to battle,but otherwise straightforward and not of evil character.For at any time or place and on whatever pretext you stir them up,you will have them ready to face danger,even if they have nothing on their side but their own strength and courage.”
“The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.”
Source: Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18
“The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.”
“The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights movement understood very clearly, and stated very beautifully, that it was a question of humanism, not a sectarian movement at all.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“The whole reason I broke up with him was so I wouldn't be that girl crying over her boyfriend, and now that's exactly what I am. It's pathetic.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“The whole reason I make these pictures is for those moments of clarity. For that single moment, everything seems to make sense in my world. And I think we all look for that in our lives, because our lives are generally filled with chaos and confusion and disorder and complication.”
“The whole reason I put myself in harm's away to get my stories is to shine a light in the dark places. To help right the wrongs in this world.”
Source: Wilderness Reunion
“The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.”
“The whole reason to study (and learn to control) body language is to have that support (rather than undercut) your message.”
“The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.”
“The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.”
“The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is an interesting one. When I was an undergraduate, there was a glib notion around that there was no reason to suppose a bad man could be a good writer.”
“The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.”
“The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.”
“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.”
“The whole Republican establishment has united to destroy his bid to be the nominee of the Republican Party.”
“The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think... ahh, I've heard that lick before.”
“The whole "Resist" movement is a form of Stolen Valor by pretenders to the courage of the WWII French Resistance.”
“The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.”
“The whole roaring crowd was gathered in the long room to give my boar's head fulsome applause when it was carried aloft on a platter. And my goodness, those old folk's eyes were as round as marbles when they saw the tables piled as high as Balthazar's Feast. Plum pottage, minced pies, roast beef, turkey with sage and red wine sauce- and that were just the first course. I was mostly pleased with the second course, for alongside the tongues, brawn, collared eels, ducks and mutton I'd put some pretty snowballs made of apples iced in white sugar, all taken from a dish in Lady Maria's hand in 'The Cook's Jewel.”
Source: An Appetite for Violets
“The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.”
“The whole romanticized sad clown thing, we have to get rid of that. That has to go. That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.”
“The whole room said, "Admire without touching anything and then get out.”
Source: Life Lessons
“The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. Whats thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.”
“The whole scene gave Ashley a fierce ache in the center of her chest. Everything her eyes came across spoke to how these two men lived in some kind of world where hardship was the constant, with only these tiny spaces between heartbeats offering some kind of peace. She saw an apartment that housed two men who lived whatever life they could in the confines of that small space because everything else was no good for anyone.”
Source: Brown Bottle
“The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.”
Source: Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
“The whole scene so reeked of penny romance that it bordered on the ludicrous . . . It was all really happening, but more like fiction come to life, a Waverly novel gone mad. Years later, Mark Twain would only half in jest propose that the American Civil War was to be blamed on Sir Walter Scott, that the people of the South had somehow persuaded themselves that the mythical era of gallant knights and fair damsels of Ivanhoe had come to life in Dixie.”
Source: Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War
“The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.”
“The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.”