T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”
“There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain
“There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the force of an independently thinking, free, and articulate democracy. The other is the force of an instructed and enlightened public opinion.”
“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.”
“There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.”
“There are only two guidelines in good sex, Don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find out what are your partner needs and dont balk them if you can help it.”
Source: The Joy of Sex
“There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.”
“There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.”
“There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living cook books and detective stories.”
“There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.”
“There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.”
“There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.”
“There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.”
“There are only two kinds of faces: Sincere and insincere!”
“There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.”
“There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.”
“There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.”
“There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. There are black men and white men and yellow men and red men, but nothing counts except whether they're honest men or dishonest men.”
Source: Father and I Were Ranchers
“There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.”
Source: Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
“There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.”
“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.”
“There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.”
Source: The End of My Career
“There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck."”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
“There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian. The rest of the world are amiable nonentities.”
“There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.”
Source: So Big
“There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can't be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don't become suckers.”
“There are only two kinds of people in this world; those who have a conscience and those who do not.”
Source: Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
“There are only two kinds of people in this world. The realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going and the dreamers have already been there.”
“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience.”
“There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings!”
“There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.”
“There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.”
“There are only two kinds of races in humanity, those concerned with the self and those who are satisfied with their liberation from it.”
“There are only two kinds of religion in the world...They all say, "Do, do, do." Only Christianity says, "Done." Christ has done it all.”
“There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.”
“There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.”
“There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and those about which I would like to write many more than 600 words. But there is nothing about which I would like to write exactly 600 words.”
Source: Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam
“There are only two kinds of thinking in this realm, Those with eternal angels of reason and logic, And those with the demon of ignorance.”
“There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him.”
“There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”
“There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.”
Source: Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life
“There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.”