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 such a big place; staying in one town your whole life, is like never leaving your house.”
Source: The Cancer Survivors Club: A collection of inspirational and uplifting stories
“The world is such a marvel - it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.”
“The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.”
Source: Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan
“The world is super-stupid. You have by far the best designers in America! And you do the most stupid cars in the world! They put billions into their stupid designs for General Motors, Chrysler, Buick, or who knows what. The designers in America must be frustrated. I am not frustrated, because I am not a designer - I am a philosopher, and all philosophers have said for ages that the world around them is stupid.”
“The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea... maybe... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.”
“The world is swarming with snakes,
In your soul brews the antidote.
Churn your doubts, burn your dread,
One gentle gaze sanitizes the cosmos.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.”
Source: Shouldn't You Be in School?
“The world is teaching kids to adapt to machines. But who is teaching them to be more human?”
— Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Source: Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call
“The world is teeming; anything can happen.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings
“The world is telling you through The New York Times and The New York Review of Books "You must shut up. You must never appear again. Because you are not relevant to us." So you have to fight their attempt to destroy you, fight to continue feeling.”
“The world is terrible," said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them.”
Source: Lady Midnight
“The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.”
“The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.”
Source: A Woman's Worth
“The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.”
“The world is the best teacher, especially to those that refuse to learn from their parents. In her class you can't drop or skip a lesson.”
“The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.”
“The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“the world is the cradle and your trap.”
“The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.”
Source: Traps for the Young
“The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.”
“The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he detects their relation and sees where they fit, and then his fragments grow at once into a connected picture beneath his hand.”
Source: Geological Sketches
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The world is the house of the strong.”
Source: Selected Writings
“The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.”
Source: Selected Writings
“The world is the most sinful place, and the biggest irony is that what you see it's build by humans.”
“The world is the problem; the atomic bomb is the answer”
“The world is the puzzle itself. God has not created this world at all. God is creator of this world is correct, by Christian’s view point, by Muslim’s view point, by Indian’s view point, but not by fact. By fact, it is only scientific circumstantial evidence.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“The world is the same but you are different”
“The world is the same everywhere.”
Source: On the heights: a novel
“The world is the same you never change it, as sure as the stars shine above. Well, you're nobody til somebody loves you, so find yourself somebody to love.”
“The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“The world is the totality of facts, not of things”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.”
“The World is the Way because there is nothing outside, and through nothing, there is no way: The World travels through itself and within itself. Time is the measure of its Way, and since the world is the Way, the Way travels, not the world. The Way is the only measure, the only time and space. World-God is the Way.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The world is the way the world is because we think that it is so.”
“The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.”
“The world is theatre with the different artists playing their own tricks of the trade to attract and get what they want from you.”
“The world is thinner in some places.”
Source: Cthulhu Cymraeg
“The world is thinning
and the earth...it's still spinning
my world is thinning
and it’s all because
of one person I’m missing.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“The world is this continually unfolding set of possibilities and opportunities, and the tricky thing about life is, on the one hand having the courage to enter into things that are unfamiliar, but also having the wisdom to stop exploring when you’ve found something worth sticking around for. That is true of a place, of a person, of a vocation.”
Source: Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
“The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.”
“The world is threatened by terrorism and violent extremism like never before. The rule of law is one of our chief defences against terrorism. Our shared values of freedom and democracy are shielded when like-minded nations work together to promote justice.”
“The world is tired of seeing the perpetuation of violence and terrorism, but the effort to create a real peace needs to go hand in hand with the struggle to restore justice.”
“The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die.”
Source: Collected Poems
“The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.”
Source: (411 p.)
“THE WORLD IS TOO BEAUTIFUL TO IGNORE. PEOPLE WILL TRICK YOU INTO BELIEVING, IT'S NOT. IGNORE THEM, NOT THE WORLD.”
“The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.”
“The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)
“The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.”
Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History