T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There is power in serving God with your God-Given Gifts.”
“There is power in simply speaking the name Jesus.”
“There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own”
“There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.”
“There is power in words. What you say is what you get.”
“There is power in you to either make the world or break the world - so what will it be?”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“There is power in your words. Use them wisely.”
“There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists.”
“There is power within great sacrifice, within noble deeds. There are moments... brief, shining moments when the impossible becomes possible.”
Source: A Beautiful Evil
“There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.”
Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
“There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.”
“there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong end of a telescope; a nation is a family seen through the right end of a telescope, and I don't believe it is possible to achieve a happy and successful family life, or a happy and successful national life, unless we bear this simple fact in mind and behave accordingly.”
Source: A pocketful of pebbles
“There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.”
Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh
“There is practically nothing in life you are set out to do that you cannot accomplish; it only takes you to make you”.”
“There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.”
Source: The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam Lecture 2: Heroes & Hero Worship
“There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.”
“There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti.”
Source: High in the thin cold air: the story of the Himalayan Expedition, led by Sir Edmund Hillary, sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia
“There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.”
“There is pressure every day as a footballer.”
“There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.”
Source: Jumpers
“There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.”
“There is pride, too, though - pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy that you mentioned is and has become a recipe for disaster in the long term, because the response to social and environmental problems has been responded to with a drug mentality, which is to say, anything for the quick fix. And it has trained the public to always believe they are one purchase away from happiness.”
“There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.”
“There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.”
Source: Christmas Stories from
“There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.”
“There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.”
“There is probably more invisible tape out there than we realize.”
“There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.”
Source: Essays, poems and plays
“There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who can get so close to the vividness of other peoples interior selves.”
“There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.”
Source: Doin' the Box Step
“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.”
“There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.”
“There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared.”
Source: One Minute, Please
“There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.”
Source: The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News
“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”
Source: DUNE
“There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time: Swann's way
“There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.”
Source: A Tramp Abroad
“there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.”
“There is probably no way for Westerners to understand Asian religions from a purely traditional
Indian, Chinese, or Japanese perspective, but perhaps is there no need either to do so.”
Source: Chan Insights and Oversights
“There is probably no way of explaining Project Koschei, or XK-PLUTO, or MK-NIGHTMARE, or the gates, without watering them down into just another weapons system -- which they are not. Weapons may have deadly or hideous effects, but they acquire moral character from the actions of those who use them. Whereas these projects are indelibly stained by a patina of ancient evil ...”
Source: A Colder War
“There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.”
Source: Love Conquers All
“There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently--without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.”
“There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips.”
Source: Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise
“There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.”
Source: Mother and Son
“There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.”
Source: Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959
“There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.”
Source: the man of letters in the modern world
“There is probably one thing, and one thing only, on which the leaders of all modern states agree; on which Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Mohammedans, and atheists agree; on which Democrats, Republicans, Socialists, Communists, Liberals, and Conservatives agree; on which medical and scientific authorities throughout the world agree; and on which the views, as expressed through opinion polls and voting records, of the large majority of individuals in all civilized countries agree. That thing is the “scientific fact” that certain substances which people like to ingest or inject are “dangerous” both to those who use them and to others; and that the use of such substances constitutes “drug abuse” or “drug addiction”— a disease whose control and eradication are the duty of the combined forces of the medical profession and the state); However, there is little agreement—from people to people, country to country, even decade to decade—on which substances are acceptable and their use therefore considered a popular pastime, and which substances are unacceptable and their use therefore considered “drug abuse” and “drug addiction.” (Preface to Ceremonial Chemistry)”
“There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.”
“There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.”
Source: Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson