T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.”
Source: The Return Of Merlin
“The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.”
“The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.”
Source: The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual
“The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else”
“The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.”
“The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.”
“The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!”
“The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.”
“The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.”
“The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.”
“The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.”
“The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.”
“The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.”
“The worst decision is indecision.”
“The worst decisions in life we make are always the one we make out of fear.”
Source: Born of Betrayal
“The worst decisions of your life will always be those that are made out of fear.”
“The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated.”
“The worst deluded are the self-deluded.”
“The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.”
“The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.”
“The worst diagnosticians of every epoch are its contemporaries.”
“The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.”
“The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.”
“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.”
“The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.”
“The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding”
“The worst dog gets the best bone.”
“The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly where he is, but you know that he is in the presence of danger. You are tormented by a desire to keep the one you love safe.”
Source: How to Make an American Quilt
“The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.”
“The worst drug of all by far is tobacco; the death toll from tobacco is just overwhelming.”
“The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!”
“The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.”
“The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.”
“The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.”
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues
“The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.”
“The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.”
“The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.”
“The worst effects of breathing polluted air are experienced where it is densest: in traffic. Spending time on and near highways, freeways, and other busy roads is terrible for your health. How near is a question that is still being studied, but researchers believe that the effects are worst within either a fifth or a third of a mile. People in cars or buses are exposed to considerably more air pollution, perhaps because of, rather than despite, being in a closed space. People walking and bicycling on or next to roads breathe more air, but inhale somewhat less pollution; and cyclists have been found to have even less risk if they are on paths that are separated from the road.”
Source: Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy
“The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.”
“The worst employer is the one who vents his frustrations on his employees.”
“The worst enemy in life is resentment.”
“The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.”
“The worst enemy is oneself, but I do not kill, because I love him. (Le pire ennemi, c'est soi-même, - Mais je ne le tue, car je l'aime)”
“The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.”
Source: Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader
“The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.”
Source: Reflections on the failure of socialism
“The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.”
“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”
Source: Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays
“The worst enemy of our humanity is our self-doubt.”
Source: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness
“The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.”
Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom