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 sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.”
Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
“There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.”
“There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.”
“There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial.”
“There are only two states of consciousness that exist - the state of the ego and the state of love. The ego is the narrow state, the seed-form, the atomic stage; love is all encompassing, love is God. The center of the ego is I; the ego exists for itself. The nectar of love is the universe. Love exists for all.”
“There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts-the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward. When neither is present, one can hardly hope that salespeople will want to be trained or want to do a good job. When disappointment is not expressed that one hasn't done a better job, or when credit is withheld when one has done a good job, there is absolutely no incentive to put forth the best effort.”
“There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.”
“There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.”
Source: Wolf in White Van: A Novel
“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.”
“There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.”
“There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.”
“There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.”
“There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.”
“There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.”
“There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.”
“There are only two things in life,' Bergé said. 'Love and beauty.”
Source: The French Art of Revenge
“There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.”
“There are only two things, ‘positive’ and ‘negative’. If you remain negative, whom would nature help? We should not have ‘negative’ in our dictionary.”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“There are only two things really that even the best of best human beings crave -redemption and revenge. Lucky for me, both meant the same things.”
Source: The Unwanted Shadow
“There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.”
Source: The Woman's Rose: Stories and Allegories
“There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.”
“There are only two things that can screw this up for us: you and me." "Then we're doomed for sure.”
Source: Magic Bleeds
“There are only two things that determine whether you're old enough to do something -- whether you understand what the hell you're getting yourself into -- and whether you're willing to accept responsibility for it if it blows up in your face.
How many years you've been alive is ultimately meaningless -- except in as much as it gives parents a general sort of idea as to whether their child is likely to understand what they're getting themselves into. Small children, for instance, can't really comprehend shades of grey -- where a decision or choice can have different answers depending on the circumstances. For them, everything is black and white.”
Source: The Mirror of Maybe
“There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.”
“There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't.”
Source: The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words
“There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!”
Source: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All (Songbook)
“There are only two things to worry about in life: either you’re free or you’re not. If you’re free, there’s nothing to worry about. If you’re not, you kick the shit out of everything around you until you are.”
Source: Iced
“There are only two things to write about: life and death.”
“There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.”
“There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.”
“There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.”
“There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.”
“There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”
Source: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
“There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10
“There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.”
“There are only two things you’ll ever need to know about me, Farin—and you should know them well. I’m very smart, and I’m very rich.”
Source: The Ties That Bind
“There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.”
Source: I spit on your graves
“There are only two times. Now and too late.”
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
Source: Epigrams
“There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.”
“There are only two types of changes: anticipatory changes and follow-up changes. The former allows you to decide your own evolution path, the latter leaves you with the option to adapt or perish.”
Source: Quantraz
“There are only two types of cinema - good or bad.”
“There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again.”
“There are only two types of girls: the type that you marry and the type that you play around with and then break up with. But you're somewhere in between.”
“There are only two types of motorists: the idiots who drive slower than me, and the lunatics who go faster.”
“There are only two types of music.good and bad.”
“There are only two types of people in the world--those who became otaku and those who didn't--and the latter just can't understand what the former is so excited about."--Ono Norihiro”
Source: Otaku Spaces
“There are only two types of people in this world - the people who do the DOING, and the people who have stuff done to them.”