T Quotes
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“There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”
Source: Invisible Man
“There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.”
“There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.”
Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist
“There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit.”
Source: Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World’S Most Elegant Woman
“There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.”
“There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes other than safeguarding the 'credibility' of those doing the bombing. Relatedly, it's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.”
“There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.”
“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”
“There are few things more dangerous to a transgender woman than the risk of a straight man not totally comfortable in his sexuality or masculinity realizing he is attracted to her.”
Source: Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
“There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.”
Source: A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska
“There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason.”
“There are few things more disconcerting than realizing the first date you thought went so well was in fact a dud.”
“There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.”
Source: Controversial Essays
“There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.”
Source: Night and Silence, Who is Here?
“There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.”
“There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.”
“There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.”
“There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized... Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42. One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course.”
“There are few things more mysterious than endings. I mean, for example, when did the Greek gods end, exactly? Was there a day when Zeus waved magisterially down from Olympus and Aphrodite and her lover Ares, and her crippled husband Hephaestus ) I always felt sorry for him), and all the rest got rolled up like a worn-out carpet?”
“There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.”
Source: Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life
“There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.”
“There are few things more powerful than people united.”
Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
“There are few things more powerful than people united. What they unite over is not what matters. ... The most important aspect is remembering our existing connection, and, through that, allowing ourselves to feel at peace.”
Source: The Love Mindset
“There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.”
“There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.”
Source: Men, Women, and Other Anticlimaxes
“There are few things more terrifying than looking a hurting person in the face and having no idea how to help them. But what we forget is that healing is typically not having a solution. Rather, it’s being a friend.”
“There are few things more ungodly than fake joy when you should be mourning.”
“There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.”
Source: Varia
“There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.”
Source: The Essays
“There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian!”
“There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.”
Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of
“There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.”
Source: Rules of Civility
“There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.”
“There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.”
Source: Golden Fool
“There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge.”
Source: Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide
“There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.”
Source: Indian Tales: Ghost Story Collections
“there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!”
“There are few things that can't be fixed by a good night's sleep.”
Source: The Circus Train
“There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.”
Source: THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer
“There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.”
Source: A Johnson Sampler
“There are few things that weigh on a person’s ability to grow and thrive more than insecurity. One critique, one insult, one harsh act could cripple a person who is not confident enough in their own skin to ignore the comments.”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
“There are few things that will remain constant over the long run.”
Source: Life Is Simply A Game
“There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.”
“There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.”
“There are few things that's forever, my lady.
We can make war or make babies.”
“There are few things truer in life than... you can not play a guitar after doing the dishes and you can't get anywhere in life with a negative mind.”
“There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.”
“There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.”