T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.”
Source: Children and Fire: A Novel
“The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise. We grudge no man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity, when exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows.”
Source: The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“The absence of empathy is the embodiment of evil”
“The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore eliminates the basis for thoughtful compromise. It rewards not those who are right, but those - like the White House press office - who can make their arguments most loudly, most frequently, most obstinately, and with the best backdrop.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence”
“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
“The absence of fear is love.”
“The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good”
“The absence of filters, checks and balances lends itself to becoming a partner with the problem.”
Source: HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul
“The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.”
“The absence of God in our lives is a result of our absence of reason, for if He is absent it is because we requested it. So, to have an absence of reason that results in the absence of God leaves me absent of both.”
“The absence of God is nothing more than the absence of me.”
“The absence of God’s answer is a clear answer; it speaks of the need to get closer to God”
“The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.”
“The absence of him is everywhere I look.”
“The absence of hope can rot a society from within.”
“The absence of human company and affection seemed to choke his heart.”
Source: Gora
“The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one’s kashays are gone, then he becomes the ‘owner’ of the whole universe.”
“The absence of justice anywhere is the presence of injustice everywhere.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The absence of knowledge and understanding doesn’t alter the truth, nor can ignorance and deceit replace it.”
Source: Tamesa: A Divided World: Epic Fantasy
“The absence of knowledge of the truths about money leads to poverty and financial slavery.”
“The absence of lost things is felt most painfully when the things you possess stop providing satisfaction.”
Source: अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]
“The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.”
“The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.”
“The absence of meaning in life is the absence of life.”
“The absence of misery is the first stage of moksha (liberation). The absence of the body, everything else is the second state of moksha (liberation).”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.”
“The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.”
Source: Reality Hunger
“The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.”
“The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.”
“The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.”
“The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.”
“The absence of specific knowledge about success is the reason why your journey along the path to success has been halted”
“The absence of strife does not necessarily indicate the presence of peace.”
“The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.”
“The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.”
“The absence of the loved person is so absolute.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”
“The absence of theistic belief...”
“The absence of things is so loud it pierces my brain with loss. What used to be, is simply no more.
But the memories linger like smoke in the air.”
Source: White Pines
“The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.”
“The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.”
Source: Juan de Mairena
“The absence of victory in one season must not stop you from believing in possibilities in the next season.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“The absence of war doesn't necessarily equal peace,' I said." I loved this because it's such a poignant reminder that just because the extreme is not the case, doesn't mean that the opposite extreme is, either. No war doesn't automatically equal peace just like no depression doesn't automatically equal happiness and "not bad" doesn't always equal "good".”
Source: Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement
“The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.”
“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”
Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I can look or pass. I rediscover indifference (allowing her to leave me) when I fall asleep, through an inability to love what happens. It is impossible for her to know whom she will discover when I hold her, because she obstinately attains a complete forgetting.”
Source: The Solar Anus
“The absent are always in the wrong”
“The absent are always wrong and it is very convenient to lynch Satan in the public square in order to make him responsible for the dark parts of our souls!”
Source: A coffee with Archangels: Light coaching for a better life
“The absent are easily refuted.”
Source: God in the Dock