T Quotes
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“There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.”
“There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you've got to have fun with it.”
“There are moments where history is made... This is one of those moments.”
“There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!”
“There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.”
“There are moments where we forgot what got us to where we are now. ... We stopped moving the ball. We know how it works. We are playing a great team with great players, and we've got to be close to perfect to win.”
“There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.”
“There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.”
Source: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.”
“There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.”
“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.”
Source: Wonderful Wodehouse 2: A Collection: Thank You Jeeves, Right Ho Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters
“There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a wink/wink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside the world just like a crazy thing happened inside our world. So we don't shy away from that stuff. We take semi-ordinary characters, even though they have their own skill sets, we take those guys and we drop them into extraordinary situations and watch how the get out of them.”
“There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.”
“There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)
“There are moments. You will know them.”
Source: Oystercatchers
“There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable with that. I don't teach that type of Zen.”
“There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.”
Source: East of Eden
“There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.”
“There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.”
“There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.”
“There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world”
“There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.”
“There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?”
Source: See, I Told You So
“There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.”
Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.”
“There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.”
“There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.”
“There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.”
Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
“There are more bees than flowers in the world, and no great flower remains unnoticed. Claim yours before it's too late.”
“There are more benefits to happiness. The power of happiness enables more success in marriages, added friendships, higher incomes, and better work performance. With more friends, happy people have a superior support system. They have an easier time navigating through life because their optimistic outlook eases pain, sadness, and grief. They smile more and engage in more in-depth and more meaningful conversations.”
Source: Happiness Power: How to Unleash Your Power and Live a More Joyful Life
“There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.”
“There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.”
“There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.”
“There are more books than can be read, more friends than can be made, more laughs than can be chortled, and no time to waste.”
Source: A Heart Made of Tissue Paper
“There are more colours to life than just Black and White”
Source: Iridescent Life
“There are more conspirators in a democratic state than in a principality, and when they go unchecked, turn their gaze to anarchism.”
“There are more copies than originals among people.”
“There are more days than joys to fill them.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
“There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.”
Source: Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
“There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.”
“There are more Democratic schmucks than there are Republican ones.”
“There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.”
“There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems – including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity – than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.”
“There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.”
Source: The Last Time They Met
“There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.”
“There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed.”
“There are more fake gurus and false teachers in this world than the number of stars in the visible universe. Don’t confuse power-driven, self-centered people with true mentors. A genuine spiritual master will not direct your attention to himself or herself and will not expect absolute obedience or utter admiration from you, but instead will help you to appreciate and admire your inner self. True mentors are as transparent as glass. They let the Light of God pass through them.” —Shams Tabrizi”
“There are more fakers in business than in jail.”
“There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.”
Source: The Complete Cynic