T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There has now emerged a global call for restoration of deforested lands, given the growing recognition that forests provide a disproportionate amount of the services—drinking and irrigation water, climate
change mitigation, stormwater management, and recreation—that allow humanity to survive in the long term.”
Source: A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future
“There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”
“There has storm clouds come over the United States. There is thunderstorms over Europe. There are hail storms – and I mean major hail storms – in the Middle East. So I want you to know that there is one man who will stand tall in this country and fight the storm and bring the United States back to what it should be – Governor Mitt Romney!”
“There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.”
“There has to be - you know, this is like what I think Americans really have trouble with, an economy that's working for the privileged few, and there those privileged few are getting special favors from the political elite.”
“There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.”
“There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.”
“There has to be a balance in life. A balance of business, family, and the opportunity to learn and teach.”
“There has to be a balance of danger and safety as a leader. To risk oneself foolishly endangers everyone you lead, but to lead from complete safety undermines your command’s authority and troop morale.”
Shane Van Aulen - Star Wolves 2023”
Source: Star Wolves - A Time to Hunt!
“There has to be a balance, Vin," Elend said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
Source: The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn
“There has to be a beginning somewhere and my thing is that I am going to give it all I got.”
“There has to be a better use for titanium than golf clubs.”
“There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.”
“There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.”
“There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.”
“There has to be a consequence to failure. Schools in the inner cities cannot be told, 'Oh, we want you to teach every child to learn how to read and, incidentally, if you fail to do that there's no consequence,' .. There has to be a consequence to failure, and the Title I money needs to follow the child.”
“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”
“There has to be a force on the horizon that can come very quickly. But the way we run and fund peacekeeping, this capacity is unavailable.”
“There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as practiced in the publishing industry. There need to be grants and government support and a few publishers, mainstream and independent, who are not afraid to challenge American readership. We need to build a network of translators, publishers and readers. We hope that our annual anthology might provide an upsurge in interest for European fiction and then, as we publish it every year, become a habit to many readers.”
“There has to be a large number of people and routes that are lined up together. One part is liquidity and the other part is product - there's a lot that can go wrong.”
“There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.”
“There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.”
“There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.”
Source: Just Listen
“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.
If the moment doesn't pass, that's it -- you're done.
And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lover's face.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“There has to be a moment at the beginning where you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn’t pass, that’s it—you’re done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it’s even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lovers’ face.”
“There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.”
Source: The Shortest Distance Between Two Women
“There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.”
“There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me.”
“There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?”
“There has to be a reason of whether you look right or you bring the emotional or intellectual baggage of what's required for the storytelling. For me, it's not something I've aspired to say, "I'm going to be working in Hollywood."”
“There has to be a reform within the government that is tangible, that we can actually measure and that we have confidence is going to provide some of the differences that I think are essential to our troops to be able to carry out their mission and to the longer- term interests of our country.”
“There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.”
“There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere deep in the forgotten corner of one’s heart- there has to be a song. Like a cool, clear drink of water and like the gentle warmth of sunshine, and like the tender love of a child, there has to be a song!”
“There has to be a time when we stop dreaming of things we’d like to accomplish and start going after these dreams. It’s the fear of failure that stops you. The truth is we all need failure to understand there’s nothing that’s just given to us. When you get to the place you want to be you’ll appreciate the failures along the way.”
“There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.”
“There has to be a whole other level of pain when your soul gets ripped in half.”
Source: One of Us Is Back
“There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.”
“There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.”
“There has to be a word for the kind of loneliness shared by two, a loneliness big enough to rechristen itself as lineage.”
Source: So, Stranger
“There has to be an element of repetition for TV... You want people to be addicted to your show, and the way to get people addicted is not to give it to them once, but to give it to them a few times, until they get on board with it. It's just about finding that balance of the necessary repetition and making the things that are repetitive absolutely necessary while keeping everything else fresh.”
“There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.”
“There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a new skin and see the world through a different perspective. If I have that spark, then I'll save the file.”
“There has to be another way," Kathleen insisted.
"If there were, I'd have found it." She knew nothing of all the sleepless nights and exhausting days he'd spent searching for alternatives. There was no good solution, only a choice between several bad solutions, and this was the least harmful.
Kathleen stared at him as if she'd just caught him snatching a crust of bread from an orphan. "But-"
"Don't press me on this," Devon snapped, losing his patience. "It's difficult enough without a display of adolescent drama."
Kathleen's face went white. Without another word, she turned and strode from the library.”
Source: Cold-Hearted Rake
“There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do.”
Source: Mule
“There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia," said Kiyu. "Otherwise we have nothing.”
Source: Whisperworld
“There has to be blame and there has to be reasons and there has to be answers and if nobody can adequately accept the blame and give a sufficient reason and provide an answer, the love, no matter how strong it is, the family, no matter how tight it is, the life, no matter how good it is, will always buckle, then snap, then drown completely under the pressure of itself, the reality of the mistrust, and the weight of its own history, because if there are no answers, the blame and the guilt become stronger than the love and those two things together become a force that no amount of love can ever break down and overcome.”
Source: Dead End
“There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.”
“There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.”
“There has to be consistent emergence of two or three films - narratively, stylistically, consistently demonstrating you are here to go on. And on that kind of basis, I'm not seeing much. I'm just waiting to see.”