T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.”
“There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.”
“There are many ways of losing love. People may desperately seek love, but even when it is found, it is easily lost. People fall out of love as much as they fall into it.”
Source: Love
“There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it's sheer, unadulterated discomfort you're looking for, just stay on land.”
“There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.”
“There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.”
“There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas”
“There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.”
“There are many ways that the dream state operates, but it is primarily characterized by a lack of awareness to what is actually happening in the present moment, and the consequent dwelling in the mind and its endless thinking, reacting and behaving from unconscious conditioning and programming.”
Source: Awake to What Is: Discovering Peace in the Present Moment
“There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.”
“There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.”
“There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.”
Source: Birthmarked
“There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.”
“There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible.”
Source: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
“There are many ways to be broken,
and Brad is all of them.”
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
“There are many ways to be happy, but there is no way to be happier than others.”
Source: Quantraz
“There are many ways to be haunted, not all of them supernatural. From photo albums to love letters, the memory of bad choices, broken promises, lost loves and shattered dreams can often linger far longer than the glow of satisfaction from our greatest accomplishments. Indeed, the most frightening ways to be haunted may be in the many ways we haunt ourselves.”
Source: Lovesick
“There are many ways to be influential. You can work for politicians or in government and make a difference. And for young women who are interested in running for office, you just have to decide you're going to follow Eleanor Roosevelt's maxim about growing skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros, and you have to be incredibly well-prepared - better prepared [than a man], actually - and you have to figure out how you're going to present yourself, and you have to have a support group around you, because it can be really a brutal experience.”
“There are many ways to be seen, and the Archivist firmly believes in the importance of witnessing the past through the detritus it leaves behind, more or less preserved.”
Source: Beings
“There are many ways to become mistress (or master) of one's fate after a betrayal, but they all have things in common: conscious effort and a fighting spirit, embodied in what I call 'the Affirmative No.' The Affirmative No incorporates self-enhancing outrage, independence, and courage. It is a stance through which a traumatized person actively proclaims her will by rejecting the role of victim.... Unable to change our predicaments, we actively changed their meaning and our relationship to them, and in the process, we discovered that we could exert power when we thought we had none.”
Source: The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
“There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.”
Source: The Art of Power
“There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.”
“There are many ways to create economic suicide on a national level. The major way through history has been through indebting the economy. Debt always expands to reach a point where it cannot be paid by a large swathe of the economy. This is the point where austerity is imposed and ownership of wealth polarizes between the One Percent and the 99 Percent.”
“There are many ways to die in Africa's Great Rift Valley. The vulture observed them all. The manner of life's ending did not concern her, or whether the dying creature was animals or human, black or white. Immaterial. Death comes. The vulture comes.”
“There are many ways to die in bed, but the best way is not alone.”
Source: Wisdom of the 90s
“There are many ways to discover that you’re not valuable in our economy. For Jason
Benn the lesson was made clear when he realized, not long after taking a job as a
financial consultant, that the vast majority of his work responsibilities could be
automated by a “kludged together” Excel script.”
Source: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
“There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.”
“There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.”
Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
“There are many ways to express a broken heart: tears, laughter, silence, dance, and even German lullabies. You don't find wholeness till you're ready to be broken. Evening after evening we found new ways to express our brokenness. Each time we did this, a healing arose.”
“there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.”
Source: Self-portrait
“There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.”
“There are many ways to feed people.”
Source: The Heart of Betrayal
“There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.”
“There are many ways to get to know someone, and my favorite is seeing them naked in Happy Baby pose.
I also feel it is important to have sex soon after meeting someone in order to find out if you have sexual chemistry together. Otherwise, you could wait two to three months after you start dating someone only to discover that your new boyfriend is bad in bed, or even worse, is into anal beads and duct tape.”
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
“There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.”
“There are many ways to hold sanctuary
May I be one of them.”
Source: Reminders on the Path
“There are many ways to inspire healing of the earth, all relating to the tree truth that everything is interconnected. We ourselves are trees. Each time we see a tree, outside us or within us, we can remember that they reflect the truth. Something deeply rooted, something with a strong trunk, something that sweeps the sky.”
“There are many ways to love someone. Sometimes we want love so much, we're not too choosy about who we love. Other times, we make love such a pure and noble thing, no poor human can ever meet our vision. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, "There is something about you I cherish." It doesn't entail marriage, or even physical love. There's love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. All different, all love.”
“There are many ways to make the death rate increase.”
“There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.”
“There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough.”
“There are many ways to prescribe happiness but there is one way that is available to everybody, it's not very expensive ... it's very democratic, and everyone has acesss to it. It is: Find someone who needs help and help him for no ulterior motive.”
“There are many ways to roll with the punches. Still, it’s probably best to avoid people who punch you.”
Source: Chip Chip Chaw!
“There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.”
“There are many ways to say I love you in this cold, dark, silent universe, as many as the twinkling stars.”
Source: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“There are many ways to say thank you, the best way is to say out loud, “I Love Myself”... From - I Love Myself-Discover A Life Through Self-Love”
“There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service. There is staring into the eyes of children and elders and lovers and strangers. There is sitting silently in one spot and there is being swept along in life's turbulent current. Life itself will grant you wisdom in ways you may neither understand nor choose. It is up to you to be open to all these sources of wisdom and to embrace them with your whole heart.”
“There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power.”
“There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.”