T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.”
“There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.”
“There should be a measure for happiness or sadness, like the width of your smile, the twinkle in your eyes, the depth of your laughter or the salt of your tears.”
“There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.”
Source: Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down
“There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been done successfully - that one is grateful to have been spun. In the theater, it is called the willing suspension of disbelief. That's what allows the play to make an impact on the audience: they have to be able to make believe that what's happening on the stage is really happening. Maybe to a degree it is a requirement for all political participation, all effective political communication, too.”
“There should be a new Internal standard law that states if you declare war. You should be on the ground in front of it. Whose children, fathers, husbands, and brothers do you want to sacrifice for your battlers?
We have so many keyboard warriors who provoke, initiate, influence, or start a war in the comfort of their homes or offices. They have medical aid for headaches and stomach aches but they want to start a war. Only people who fight in war should declare war and others should be prohibited because they don't know what it takes or what is happening in war. Peace is always a solution and peace will make sure there are no casualties.”
“There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.”
“There should be a new, more honest euphemism. Like, I'm leaving office because I plan to solicit more anonymous sex in bathrooms.”
“There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.”
Source: Treasury of David
“There should be a period of time during each practice session when you perform. Invite some friends in to your practice room and play a passage or a page of something. ... What I'm trying to indicate is that each day should contain some amount of performing. You should engage in the deliberate act of story telling each day you practice. Don't only gather information when you practice, spend time imparting it. This is important.”
“There should be a phone service, I thought, something like 1-800-MEDIUM-1.Where an automated voice would direct you. Press one if an object in your home is levitating. Press two if there is ectoplasm oozing out of your walls. Press three if spirits are disrupting your cable service. Press four if you've inherited your mother's psychic abilities.”
Source: School Spirit
“there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.”
“There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.”
“There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history has shown “the customs of society and laws of the State allowed it to crush my aspirations and barred me from the the pursuit of almost every object worthy of an intelligent, rational mind.”45 What law has the right to entrust the interest of myself and my children into the hands of such an evil bunch of men? I did not occupy my rightful place in 1976.
45. (paraphrased from Gurko, Miriram, The Ladies of Seneca Falls; the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement, 1974.”
Source: Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
“There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.”
Source: An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus
“There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.”
“There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.”
Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
--from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan”
Source: DUNE
“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”
“There should be a separate line to scrutinize anybody with the name Abdul or Ahmed or Mohammed.”
“There should be a soundtrack playing for me as I walk down the street... And for what I'm about to do, cosplay is for suckers." - Judy The Burglar”
Source: Hot Prowl
“There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.”
“There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.”
“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”
“There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.”
“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”
“There should be a talent that goes along with being famous.”
“There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.”
“There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.”
Source: The Immortal Highlander
“There should be a weather app for people with social anxiety, like "Today life will be partly crowdy with a 70 percent chance of having to deal with people." - from "The Mixed-Up Files of Tilly Adams's Journal”
Source: Lost and Found Sisters
“There should be a word for a laugh that ends as soon as it starts. A laugh that's more a syllable of surprise and acknowledgment than it is anything else.”
Source: Fangirl
“There should be a word for it. That phantom limb, reaching out from your chest, towards things you’ll never have.”
Source: Sirens
“There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short.”
“There should be a word for the ability to stop crying about a past pain even though it's still in you. There should be a word for living.
Yes, that's it. There should be a word for continuing to live when a part of you has died. There should be a word that sums that up. And the longer you live, the more that word should become a part of you. Because the thing of it is, every day that the person is missed feels longer and there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing you can do to share the long, beautiful days which they are not a part of.”
Source: People Like Us
“There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.”
“There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.”
“There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.”
“There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.”
Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland
“There should be an expanded role in this society for every human being. I see an expanded role for the human spirit, for excellence, for virtue, and for creativity - within women, and within everyone.”
“There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.”
Source: Living Faith
“There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.”
“There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which nears this feeling but tempers it with nostalgia, a wish for something that was and can never be again. A grieving person lives in a permanent state of saudade, but saudade does not incorporate joy. And grief might be simpler if joy never tried to intrude.”
Source: We Must Not Think of Ourselves
“There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.”
Source: Gleanings Among The Sheaves
“There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.”
“There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.”
“There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on race, riots, Reds, crime
“There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death.”
“There should be chairs inside the witness boxes in the Bangladeshi courts so that the accused and the witnesses can sit and answer the questions asked by the lawyers!”
“There should be choice in healthcare.”