T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“there is little difference between man and beast, but what ambition and glory makes.”
“There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same.”
“There is little difference in being lost and exploring.”
“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”
Source: Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude
“There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.”
“There is little disagreement on our planet that the lives of most human beings could be improved immensely. Words pour out of lecturers, articles pour out of magazines, and books pour out of authors, all seeking to help us understand how we can have more peace, security, health, opportunity, happiness, fulfillment, abundance, and love.”
“There is little doubt that a significant part of any serious solution will require advances of technology, but that can only be part of the solution. Other major changes are necessary.”
“There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world.”
“There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.”
“There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.”
“There is little enough dignity in birth but there is none whatever in death.”
Source: They Came and Ate Us: Armageddon II: The B-Movie
“There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.”
Source: The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
“There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.”
“There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.”
“There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.”
Source: Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
“There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.”
“There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.”
Source: The messages and papers of Woodrow Wilson
“There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.”
“There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we can remedy that cultural lag by developing a new perspective on the historian's enterprise, one that will make us Darwinians at last.”
“There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.”
Source: The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988
“There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.”
Source: Strength to Love
“There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.”
“There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.”
Source: Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy
“There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.”
“There is little information available on the role of vitamin E to treat COVID-19.”
Source: COVID Supplements
“There is little information on how to treat Long COVID.”
Source: Long COVID Supplements
“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator
“There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.”
“There is little meaning in making a fuss. There is nothing else to do but say goodbye to the lost body part and continue your life with what parts may be left”
“There is little more likely to exasperate a person of sense than finding herself tied by affection and habit to an enthusiast.”
Source: Enthusiasm
“There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.”
“There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.”
Source: A Further Range
“There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.”
Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.”
“There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.”
“There is little or no hope of any recovery in his memory. But a man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibilities, moral being... It is here... you may touch him, and see a profound change”
Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
“There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.”
Source: The Hobbit
“There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.”
“There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.”
Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
“There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.”
Source: Loud and Clear
“There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.”
Source: The Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories
“There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again.”
“There is little reason to think that the overreaction to sex offenders being released from prison translates into greater willingness to report or act on suspicions of sexual abuse.”
Source: The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
“There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.”
“There is little success where there is little laughter.”
Source: The Empire of Business
“There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.”
“There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.”