T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.”
“There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause”
Source: Essays Ancient and Modern
“There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.”
Source: Symposium and Phaedrus
“There is no such thing as a man-eating shark, only shark-eating men exist.”
Source: Learning to Play With a Lion's Testicles: Unexpected Gifts From the Animals of Africa
“There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity”
“There is no such thing as a minor operation. Any opening, incision, cut, gash or puncture in the human body not put there by God is a blasphemy and a major disaster.”
Source: Sabrina Fair
“There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they'd say, "Ahh miracla, miracla!"”
“There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.”
Source: Conversation with Canadians
“There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.”
“There is no such thing as a modern planet with hundreds of nations. A modern planet is one nation, if not, it's not modern, but medieval.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.”
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”
“There is no such thing as a natural born pilot. Whatever my aptitudes or talents, becoming a proficient pilot was hard work, really a lifetime's learning experience. For the best pilots, flying is an obsession, the one thing in life they must do continually. The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best. Experience is everything. The eagerness to learn how and why every piece of equipment works is everything. And luck is everything, too.”
Source: Yeager: An Autobiography
“There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.”
Source: Joe Louis: My Life
“There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.”
“There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls”
“There is no such thing as a natural proclivity for selling oneself. Prostitution is forced on women by a society that allows them damned few options to support themselves.”
“There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.”
“There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.”
Source: A Stein Reader
“There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.”
Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
“There is no such thing as a necessary evil.”
“There is no such thing as a neutral future. Every tomorrow reflects what we dare to protect today.”
“There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.”
“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…
“There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“There is no such thing as a non-dangerous dictator! Like all the venomous snakes, all dictators are dangerous! Then what is the antidote? Antidote is our love for freedom and our unshakable determination on the matter of keeping this love!”
“There is no such thing as a non-working mother, uncaring father, and an ugly girl.”
“There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.”
“There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.”
“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics
“There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.”
“There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.”
“There is no such thing as a Palestinian.”
“There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss.”
“There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.”
“There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.”
Source: The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
“There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.”
“There is no such thing as a perfect drawing, especially if you're ametur.”
Source: Miki Falls, Volume 3: Autumn
“There is no such thing as a perfect flawless attitude.”
Source: The Winning Attitude: Your Pathway to Personal Success
“There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.”
“There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars of our lives. We are all different and start differently. But from whatever is our circumstances, it is very important that we find the opportunities to try out what we want to do.”
“There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way.”
Source: City on Fire
“There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.”
“There is no such thing as a perfect relationship. Work on a healthy one and it will be perfect for you.”
“There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means of expression; he is always pursuing facts and words.”
“There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
“There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.”
“There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.”