T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.”
“There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.”
“There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.”
“There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.”
“There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.”
Source: Revolution
“There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.”
“There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan
“There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.”
“There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!”
“There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.”
“There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.”
“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
“There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.”
“There is only one thing in the universe that you can truly shine, It's your life, shine on.”
“There is only one thing in the world that is really valuable, it is to do good.”
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.”
Source: The Vestige
“There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.”
“There is only one thing in your life YOU can be sure of. That one thing is this moment, now. The last moment has gone forever. The next moment has not come. YOU can become fully conscious only when you are living in the moment. To begin to live in the moment you have to know it exists and understand it. To understand it you have to observe it in relation to yourself and in relation to life. When you understand it, when you become conscious, you will see it is all that exists. To see this is to glimpse reality.”
“There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.”
“There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.”
Source: Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960
“There is only one thing more numerous than the stars, and that is the darkness that holds them.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.”
“There is only one thing on my bucket list-old age.”
“There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.”
“There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)
“There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“There is only one thing that can conquer suffering: the Passion.”
Source: Lykke-Per
“There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.”
“There is only one thing that could make me near homicidal. Yeah - this is called My Proper Tea.”
“There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.”
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”
“There is only one thing that is more natural than thinking: breathing.
And it is in breathing that we find the door to happiness.”
“There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.”
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
“There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.”
“There is only one thing that makes you a man. that is, by the way you treat a woman and a greater man? when she says you are a gentleman”
“There is only one thing that matters, if you have any plan on being a novelist: You have to finish your book.”
“There is only one thing that remains to us that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life; but that is not the politician's way.”
Source: An autobiography
“There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“There is only one thing that seems to work; and that is to turn directly toward the approaching darkness without prejudice and totally naively, and to try to find out what its secret aim is and what it wants from you.”
Source: Man and His Symbols
“There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.”
“There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.”
Source: On Literature
“There is only one thing to learn and that is how to love and how to be loved.”
“there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.”
“THERE IS ONLY ONE THING WE SHOULD TEACH OUR CHILDREN:
TO LEARN BY THEMSELVES.”
“There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.”
“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.”
Source: The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 29: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913
“There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it”
Source: The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
“There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.”