T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.”
“The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold.”
“The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.”
Source: Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner
“The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.”
“The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.”
“The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.”
Source: Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality, and religion
“The worth and value of your ambition hinges on the principles which nourish it.”
Source: Lead Like a Superhero: What Pop Culture Icons Can Teach Us About Impactful Leadership
“The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. - Saphira”
Source: Eragon
“The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”
“The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.”
“The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.”
“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”
“The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.”
“The worth of a man is to work while he well.”
“The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent a matter of experience and habit-but by the scope and accuracy of the individual laws to the discovery of which it eventually leads.”
Source: Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers
“The worth of a person lies in their responsibleness for society, not in their economic or intellectual caliber.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“The worth of a person’s thought is measured not by the quantity but by the quality of the support that it has got and this quality is defined by a single factor, which is only people’s human character.”
“The worth of a relationship is not based on ease but on purpose and depth.”
Source: Touched by Love
“The worth of a society is genuine if established on cardinal law of kingdom–love”
“The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
“The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.”
Source: Peace and Bread in Time of War
“The worth of knowledge is to be measured based on whether it benefits others without discrimination.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.”
“The worth of moments is not realized until moments become memories.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.”
Source: Essays of Montaigne
“The worth of the nation is its working youth.”
“The worth of the nations lies in the work of it's citizens.”
“The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.”
“The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.”
Source: Chronicles
“The worth of well being is as good as wealth.”
“The worth of wellness is as valuable as wealth.”
“The worth of your strength cannot be measured in wages.”
“The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.”
“The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.”
“The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.”
Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold
“The worthless usually live long.”
“The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.”
“The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.”
Source: VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…
“The worthy attendant said: Take heart, my lord!”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.”
Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke
“The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own.”
“The would approach him. They always did. But he felt more anxious than usual. He'd stopped trying to make friends in the places he and his mother visited—there was no point when they moved on so quickly. Now he wasn't quite sure how to go about it.”
Source: The Demon in the Wood
“The would-be brute, by dreaming of medieval bloodbaths, finds himself uninterested in mere parking lot brawls and the would-be lothario, by dreaming of Sadean spoilations, loses his interest in venturing so mild a thing as an unsolicited kiss. In this way, dreams offer us all those things which our lives deny and by their extravagance, dull our daily denials.”
“The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.”
Source: Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet
“The wound can be healed by the word of God.”
“The wound healed, but it left an ugly, rippling scar. The memory of it never left me.”
Source: Shantaram
“The Wound
I climbed to the crest,
And, fog-festooned,
The sun lay west
Like a crimson wound:
Like that wound of mine
Of which none knew,
For I’d given no sign
That it pierced me through.”
Source: Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”