T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The world is a grindstone and life is your nose”
“The world is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.”
“The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.”
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
“The world is a huge space, but the space that will take you in - and it
doesn't have to be very big - is nowhere to be found. You seek a voice, but what do
you get? Silence. You look for silence, but guess what? All you hear over and over
and over is the voice of this omen. And sometimes this prophetic voice pushes a
secret switch hidden deep inside your brain.”
“The world is a hungry place, and Anna will feed it beauty.”
Source: Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova
“The world is a joke, really—a sick, repetitive joke we all pretend to laugh at while it grinds us down. If this is the one we get, why do we spend it like this? School devours the first two decades of your life, conditioning you to sit and follow orders. Then comes work—a relentless grind that strips away what little freedom you thought you had.
Want a house? A holiday? The illusion of comfort? You'll need more hours, more overtime, more bending over backwards for people who don't know your name. And if you're lucky, you'll retire at 65, when your body's too tired and your soul too drained to do anything with the time you've finally bought. By 75, if you even make it that far, you'll be a burden. Some poor nurse or relative will be wiping your arse while they try to keep their own heads above water.”
“The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.”
Source: Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters to Edith Brower
“The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.”
Source: Beethoven, the man and the artist: as revealed in his own words
“The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.”
Source: Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
“The world is a lie...not you and me.”
“The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961.”
“The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.”
Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“The world is a living image of God.”
“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
Source: Vanity Fair
“The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“The world is a loud talker but a very poor thinker. It lives on words -- very poor food, -- and on noises, --very poor music. It does not understand that solitude is the home of great thoughts and aspirations.”
Source: A Crown for Our Queen
“The world is a magnificent place. What are you going to do with it?”
“The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.”
“The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.”
“The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.”
Source: Ignite Me
“The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life.”
“The world is a messed up and scary place. It's lonely to go through it on your own. So, you have to find your family. You have to find people who will stand by you and make you laugh until you cry, and who will hold you while you cry until you laugh again.”
Source: Even If We Break
“The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.”
“The world is a mirror for us – whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.”
“The world is a mirror in which everyone sees himself reflected”
“The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.”
Source: Centuries of Meditations
“The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not men disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God.”
Source: Centuries of Meditations
“The world is a mirror representing the divine life.”
“The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection.”
“The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself.”
Source: Class Begins Here
“The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being”
Source: The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land
“The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.”
“The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.”
“The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.”
Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses
“The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.”
“The world is a mysterious place. On the one hand, its size can be measured and recorded and verified. Its marvels and oddities captured in complex, empirical detail.
On the other hand, its size is relative to our mind’s perception of it. Its marvels and oddities only extending to how far our vision goes.
For some of us, this means the world is small, including only those we see as belonging to it. People related to us, people who look like us, dress like us, think like us.
For others, it’s medium-size and includes those we connect to through some similarity, some trait that pings familiarity within, which then allows us to overlook the differences between us and them.
And then there are those who see the world as huge, as the actual size it measurably is.
Huge enough to include vast differences, people with nothing in common with one another except a beating heart and a feeling soul, these two—heart, soul—being the strongest connection between us all.”
Source: Love from A to Z
“The world is a navy in an empty ocean.”
“The world is a neon sign; it says HUMANITY but everything's burnt out except MAN.”
Source: Call Down the Hawk
“The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.”
“The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.”
“The world is a never-ending cross-reference.”
“The world is a noisy place. Everybody wants to say something. We are forever surrounded by people’s opinions on how to make things work. Everyone wants to give us a piece of themselves through speeches and actions. Everything around us wants our attention. It never stops. Sometimes we get lost in the maze of all the noise we are surrounded by. We forget one thing: Silence! You can only learn when you are silent.”
Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters
“The world is a penal institution.”
“The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana
“The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.”
“The world is a pile of grunge.”
“The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.”