T Quotes
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“The worst mistake I've ever made is bad all on its own, but I never think of it on its own. Some mistakes come in sets, and my worst mistake had a part one that came seven years earlier.”
Source: Lakelore
“The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.”
“The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.”
“The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.”
“The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.”
“The worst mistake you can make is to force yourself to shop. The most important part of shopping is your frame of mind. How can you make a proper choice if you feel like the mistreated heroine of a soap opera?
A frivolous hat or other bit of forbidden fruit are ideal for beating the blues, but stay out of the dress and coat departments until you feel enthusiastic. If your body isn't attuned to fashion, you won't look right in anything. And if you're depressed because you've gained a few pounds, don't buy something too small to grow down to. Lose the few pounds first then go shopping. [I]Remember, diets always start tomorrow. [/i]”
Source: Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife
“The worst mistake you can make is to force yourself to shop. The most important part of shopping is your frame of mind. How can you make a proper choice if you feel like the mistreated heroine of a soap opera?
A frivolous hat or other bit of forbidden fruit are ideal for beating the blues, but stay out of the dress and coat departments until you feel enthusiastic. If your body isn't attuned to fashion, you won't look right in anything. And if you're depressed because you've gained a few pounds, don't buy something too small to grow down to. Lose the few pounds first then go shopping. Remember, diets always start tomorrow.”
Source: Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife
“The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.”
“The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.”
Source: The feast of love
“The worst mistakes of your past can be the best lights of your future!”
“The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.”
“The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.”
“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.”
“The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.”
“The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.”
“The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle”
Source: Only Time Will Tell
“The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy.”
“The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.”
“The worst moments are when my entire family is in the same room. With the people I should love the most surrounding me, I feel the most alone.”
Source: Crossing the Line
“The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.”
“The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.”
“The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.”
“The worst nightmare is the nightmare that continues even when you wake up!”
“The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.”
“The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.”
“The worst of all bad regimes are religious regimes because a religious regime attributes all its immorality and wickedness to a supernatural power, and finds a great deal of support among intellectually deficient people within the country to maintain the regime!”
“The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.”
Source: Plato: With an English Translation
“The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.”
“The worst of all fears is the fear of living”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“The worst of all human ailments: indecision.”
Source: Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
“The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.”
“The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.”
Source: all the year round
“The worst of all self limiting beliefs is the fear of failure. This is the fear of loss, poverty, mistakes, or not achieving a goal that you have set for yourself. People who are preoccupied with the fear of failure continually look for reasons why something cannot be done, why it’s a bad idea, or why they may lose their time and money. The fear of failure, like all fears, paralyzes behavior, clouds thinking, and causes a person to feel like the proverbial deer in headlights.”
Source: Just Shut Up and Do It: 7 Steps to Conquer Your Goals
“The worst of all States is the democratic State.”
“The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.”
“The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.”
“The worst of being sacked is you can never find your car.”
“The worst of days with Jesus are still better than the best of days without Him.”
“The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.”
“The worst of faces still is human.”
“The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.”
Source: A Shorter Ego: Ego 7, Ego 8, Ego 9
“The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.”
Source: Mrs. Miniver
“The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.”
“The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)
“The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]”
“The worst of humanity comes out in the shadows.”
Source: An Anonymous Girl
“The worst of humanity was overwhelming. Empathy was alarmingly finite, a fistful of jewels gleaming and traded and gone.”
Source: Listen to Your Sister
“The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "—three," and years later, "Three," she will say, "—four.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel