T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions.”
“The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.”
Source: Diet for a Small Planet
“The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”
Source: Between the Lines
“The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated.”
“The act of reading is skill that can be cultivated.”
“The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.”
“The act of reading to a child is the most important contribution to the future of our society that adults can make.”
Source: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book: Life Lessons from Notable People from All Walks of Life
“The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.”
“The act of rebellion is seeded in doubt that SAFER-U is what it claims to be, and the search for some satisfaction outside of us. We can see what life without SAFER-U, lived in rebellion and fear, does to areas where people have not let SAFER-U gain control. The rebellious and non-conforming choose their poverty by rejecting the safety and riches of our U-City’s.”
“The act of recording requires you to look at and handle and touch things, so yes - art is more than just looking and recording. It's messy and time consuming and people might fall in love and get hurt.”
“The act of remembering is an act of retracing, and by doing so we erase and change the stencil.”
Source: The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
“The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.”
“The act of respecting a girl is more beautiful than saying her beautiful.
-Santosh Pyasa”
“The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.”
“The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.”
“The act of seeking knowledge reveals more spectacular landscapes when we do not have a destination in mind.”
Source: The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
“The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret one's impulsiveness, one's misjudgment of others? The inevitable discovery that someone is selling letters you'd written in trust is simply to discover an obvious human truth: there are those who don't cherish us as we'd cherished them, and had wished to be cherished by them.”
“The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.”
“The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.”
“The act of silence is wisdom for ignoring a provoking situation.”
“The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.”
“The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.”
Source: 21 Days to Better Balance: Find More Balance in a Busy World
“The act of speaking out makes you alone.”
Source: The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation
“The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.”
Source: Are We Winning Yet?: How Women are Changing Sports and Sports are Changing Women
“The act of striving itself is not sufficient to suggest that one is actually striving, for without an objective that is defined by the bigness of God and freed from the smallness of us we are only toddling about.”
“The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer and didn’t want to stick around long enough to see their doubt through to its ultimate conclusion. A conclusion, which, of itself, was a bittersweet paradox—for how could doubt simply cease to exist by any stretch of the imagination? Doubt was, nonetheless—from his own perspective—the only inclusive insight into the nature of a Truth exclusive of conditions.”
Source: Don't Forget to Breathe
“The act of surrendering sort of puts me in a different mindset that allows me to be more of a channel - because I'm not holding on so tightly to things, I'm letting go, and I find that in letting go I become more of a channel for life to really happen on life's terms. I mean, maybe that sounds sort of metaphysical, but that's honestly how I feel.”
“The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and to a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy.”
“The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”
“The act of talking is in itself a therapy”
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive
“The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.”
Source: The Lost Symbol: (Robert Langdon Book 3)
“The act of the being in the band has very little in common with writing songs. The songs come out of it, and the band is necessary for the songs to emerge, but the band doesn't exist just so the songs can emerge.”
“The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine and the soul as the branches, which communicates life, strength, nourishment, and beauty. In a word, with a just view of the character, and a supreme attachment to the person of Christ, the believer yields himself into His hands as a full and complete Saviour. Him he receives; upon Him he rests, and rests for time and eternity.”
Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character
“The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.”
“The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.”
“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. It isn't like a lecture: it's like a conversation. There's a back-and-forthness about it. The book proposes, the reader questions, the book responds, the reader considers. We bring our own preconceptions and expectations, our own intellectual qualities, and our limitations, too, our own previous experiences of reading, our own temperament, our own hopes and fears, our own personality to the encounter.”
“The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.”
“The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.”
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
“The act of violence is a great temptation for the weak and the dumb!”
Source: Scientific Computing in Python
“the act of vomiting deserves your respect. It's an orchestral event of the gut.”
Source: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
“The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.”
“The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.”
“The act of waitressing is a solace, it's got everything you could ask for - confusion, panic, humility, and food.”
Source: Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“The act of war itself is the least productive activity for mankind. It consumes men and materials, demands our time and energies which might otherwise be used to advance our nation, spends the treasure and labors of the people, orphans our children, and is the source for unspeakable violence, tragedy, sorrow and waste. My opinion of war can be summed up in five words: Destructive. Wasteful. Expensive. Inflationary. Bureaucratic. In this opinion, I am not alone, nor was I the first to make the observation I am certain.”
“The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.”
“The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to that of others reflects the understanding that individual happiness needs a base broader than the mere satisfaction of selfish passions. From there, it is not such a large step to the realization that respecting the susceptibilities and rights of others is as important as defending one's own susceptibilities and rights if civilized society is to be safeguarded.”
Source: Towards a true refuge