T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.”
“There seemed to Isabel in these days something sacred in Gardencourt; no chapter of the past was more perfectly irrecoverable. When she thought of the months she had spent there the tears rose to her eyes.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.”
“There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.”
“There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.”
Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].
“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”
“There seems almost a shared society-wide delusion at play where we all accept that wasted effort is just a fact of life.
And that is fine.
Or rather, it would be fine if we had already conquered hunger in the world.
Or if half of the world’s children would not live in poverty.
Or had we become a multi-planetary species, protecting us from a planetary catastrophe.
But we have not.
Quite the opposite, our species is actually threatened from several quarters, yet we insist on having some of our best people waste their lives LARPing instead of contributing.”
Source: Scaling Done Right: How to Achieve Business Agility with Scrum@Scale and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does”
Source: Capitalism and Freedom
“There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.”
“There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.”
Source: A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion
“There seems no plan because it is all plan.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered be a cause not partisan.”
“There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.”
Source: What I Believe
“There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom.”
“There seems to be a concern about whether the public appreciation of science has eroded to a point where it has removed science from public debate and public decision making. Whether the public has come to regard evidence as optional.”
“There seems to be a consistency, in that people who have had access to the Iranian program - people who actually have had boots on the ground and have been able to investigate and inspect the program - have consistently been saying these things.”
“There seems to be a contradiction in the fact that there's more music around and more channels or downloading music or more channels on TV, and yet at the same time, in some ways it doesn't seem to be as vital as it once was. It seems to be just another entertainment option or lifestyle enhancement aid or something.”
“There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people.”
“There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they will be unable to be forceful and act violently if needed.... We see that females that are raised with the traits any person of integrity embodies can act with tenderness, with assertiveness, and with aggression if and when aggression is needed.”
Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
“There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.”
“There seems to be a firewall in my mind against ideas expressed in numbers and graphs rather than words, or in abstract words such as Sin or Creativity. I just don’t understand. And incomprehension is boredom.”
Source: Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016
“There seems to be a formula for life, formula devised and perfected over centuries of labour by many anonymous brains. Like all formulas this formula provided a solution too, solutions for real-world problems.
Birth→education→work→earn→marry→reproduce→indoctrinate your child with same formula→die = survival”
Source: WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT?
“There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.”
“There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped having ear infections every three weeks, they emerged from the mother zone, and like everyone else, they forgot where they'd been. Amnesia surrounding motherhood is the rule, not the exception.”
“There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.”
“There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations
“There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.”
“There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.”
“There seems to be a lot of momentum behind immigration reform.”
“There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.”
“There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.”
“There seems to be a passive alliance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and that's unprecedented in its form and dangerous in its content, because Russia is our most dangerous geopolitical opponent because of the desires that they have in the Middle East and because of their desire to break up Europe. And in the United States, we spent a lot of blood and a lot of treasure trying to keep Europe intact and democratic, and trying to keep the Middle East from being only influenced by people who are massive fans of [Syrian President] Assad and massive fans of the Iranians.”
“There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.”
“There seems to be a requirement for just so many people to be in the poor class, just as the need for a middle class exists. One class actually supports the other. The only way to get out of that cycle is to fight your way out. Never pass up an opportunity, and stick your foot into every open door, even if it’s just to see what’s inside. If there’s a possibility of seeing something you never have seen to experiencing something new. Do it.”
Source: Slave to the Dream: Everyone’s Dream
“There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.”
Source: Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. With notes by P. Cunningham
“There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.”
“There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.”
“There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.”
“There seems to be a trend that I have noticed. It seems the more peace and love I wish on others the more peace and love come to me.”
“There seems to be a weird ceiling to being a stand-up as far as acting.”
“There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?”
“There seems to be an important relationship between language and thought: I often speak—or write, as I am doing right now—to define or refine my thinking on a particular topic, and language is the scaffolding by which I arrive at my more subtle or syncretic thoughts.”
Source: Hypersanity: Thinking Beyond Thinking
“There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.”
“There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit petty expenses and charge for carriage paid? The soul ties its shoes; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous.”
Source: Walter Bagehot: A Study of His Life and Thought, Together with a Selection from His Political Writings
“There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.”
Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
“There seems to be art and creativity everywhere, whether it was in the galleries of Jaffa or along the streets of Jerusalem ... the creativity blows my mind because you can see that people want to live their lives to the fullest.”
“There seems to be for a long time now a range of issues that the Australian people want to talk about, but for some reason politicians of various shapes and stripes have decided they don't want to talk about.”