T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down. If you leave that to dig another well, all the first effort is wasted and there is no proof you won’t hit rock again. (52)”
Source: Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“There’s no way I’m going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.”
“There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.”
“There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke.”
“There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles”
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed or enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.”
“There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”
Source: Definitely Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.”
Source: Flipped
“There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.”
“There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.”
“There’s not a better feeling than when you have found that moment of balance and harmony when both running and life come together. Then you know why you run and that you couldn’t live without it.”
“There’s not a lot of music videos that are totally, totally disturbing.”
“There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.”
“There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.”
“There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.”
“There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.”
“There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.”
“There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.”
Source: Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews
“There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.”
“There’s nothing better than excelling at a game you love. There’s nothing worse than thinking your accomplishments as a player outweigh your responsibilities as a person.”
“There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank. How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.”
“There’s nothing harder to do in animation than nothing. Movement is our medium.”
“There’s nothing here,” Carter said. “What do you want?” I asked. “We’ve got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“There’s nothing in the world worse than having an opportunity that you’re not prepared for. Good luck usually follows the collision of opportunity and preparation - it’s a result of that collision. You’ve got to be prepared. So, make your mistakes now and make them quickly. If you’ve made the mistakes, you know what to expect the next time. That’s how you become valuable.”
“There’s nothing left of me.
I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness? It has no resistance
to sunlight.”
“There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.”
Source: White Cat
“There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.”
“There’s nothing like real love. Nothing.”
“There’s nothing like the first kiss once you’ve been pronounced husband and wife. It’s such a wonderful moment!”
“There’s nothing more amazing than the sound of a screaming crowd. Nothing.”
“There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.”
“There’s nothing more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a believer with the Word of God in their mouth.”
“There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.”
“There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.”
“There’s nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they’re there because they understand.”
“There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.”
“There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.”
“there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.”
Source: A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
“There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.”
“There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.”
Source: In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition
“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.”
“There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.”
“There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”
Source: Foundation's Edge
“There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.”
“There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affections might be exciting in books, but in life it’s unbearably boring. I’ll tell you what’s exciting: sweaty, passionate nights. But sitting on the veranda outside the home of a sleeping woman who isn’t dreaming about you is slow moving and just plain sad.”
Source: A Fraction of the Whole
“There’s nothing worse than falling in love with a person over and over every time you lay eyes on them, especially when you hate their goddamn guts”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“There’s nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It’s when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.”
“There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.”
Source: The Compound Effect