T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.”
“These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants and a cellphone book.”
“These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.”
Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to treat them with mere indifference and contempt. If not true they are little else than the pretensions of a bold imposture, which not satisfied with having already enslaved millions of the human race, seeks to continue its encroachments upon human liberty, until all nations be subjected under its iron rule.”
Source: The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence
“These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.”
“These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.”
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.”
Source: The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.”
“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”
“These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.”
“These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.”
“THESE ARE NOT MY FAILURES
THESE ARE THE CERTIFICATES OF MY GRIT
ये मेरी असफलताएं नहीं हैं
ये मेरी ज़िद के प्रमाणपत्र हैं
YEH MERI ASAFALTAYEIN NAHIN HAIN
YEH MERI ZID KE PRAMANPATR HAIN”
“These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.”
“These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.”
“These are not ordinary times where we play politics and juggle with the safety of the society. These are the times that demand prompt decisions and utter responsibility towards not just the self but our kind – the humankind.”
“These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.”
Source: George Lucas: Interviews
“These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.”
Source: The federalist papers
“These are only hints and guesses,
Hints followed by guesses; and the rest
Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.”
“These are optimistic pieces, travel pieces that go anywhere”
“These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends' children... the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.”
“These are our realities, and, like our ancestors of fifty thousand years ago, if we--as a species rather than as an individual--are uninformed or careless, or indifferent to the Facts (emphasis mine), then survival as a species is in serious doubt." ~~John D. MacDonald, Reading for Survival. c. 1987”
Source: Reading for Survival
“These are our special reconnaissance troops. Hand-picked. Disciplined. Smart. We call them the Gatherers.”
Source: The Gathering Elements
“These are party-sanctioned debates. This is a presidential election, you show up at the debates. These are the rules. We have a series of unwritten rules of how campaigns are run, and everybody has followed those rules consistently over the decades. And no one has really even seriously thought about breaking them.”
“These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we're doing, and they consistently thank us. "I agree your results aren't always right," they'll say, "but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it's an interesting process because it's messy, and no other shows show that."”
“These are people that are gonna vote for Hillary Clinton. They couldn't care less that she is sleazy. They couldn't care less that she cannot tell the truth. They couldn't care less that she exposes this nation to great risk.”
“These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.”
“These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.”
“These are people who don't believe the government can possibly get too big. It's not possible for it to get too big. It's not possible for the government to get too powerful. It's not possible. And yet they are worried at the 'New York Times' about what is happening to it under the guidance of the presidency and Mr. Obama.”
“These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.”
“These are people who wanted to provide for their family and wanted a better life. We've got to have a secure border. But we've also, we've got to act compassionately and recognize labor markets as well. ... I've never thought that it's [path to citizenship] a bad thing. If somebody is going to be here for 20, 30 years, to give them some skin in the game, if you will, to hold out the prospect of citizenship.”
“These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.”
“These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.”
“These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.”
“These are quite obviously the books that nobody reads,’ said Rocky, studying their titles. ‘But it’s a comfort to know that they are here if you ever should want to read them. I’m sure I should find them more entertaining than the more up-to-date ones. Wild Beasts and their Ways; Five Years with the Congo Cannibals; With Camera and Pen in Northern Nigeria; Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia. I wish people still wrote books with titles like that. Nowadays I believe it simply isn’t done to show a photograph of “The Author with his Pygmy Friends”—we have become too depressingly scientific.”
Source: Excellent Women
“These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.”
“These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?”
“These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.”
Source: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
“These are serious matters, and we can never let up on these sanctions [against Russia].”
“These are serious times. However, don’t underestimate the power of laughter to help us through.”
“These are shows designed for
the underground artists, painters, philosophers, thinkers, musicians, visual artists, poets, set designers––it’s a creative community that’s coming together to change the world.”
“These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.”
Source: Strategy Six Pack
“These are some of my favorite smells: toasting bagel, freshly cut figs, the bergamot in good Earl Grey tea, a jar of whole soybeans slowly turning beneath a tropical sun.
You'd expect the latter to smell salty, meaty, flaccid- like what you'd smell if you unscrewed the red cap of the bottle on a table in your neighborhood Chinese restaurant and stuck your nose in as far as it would go. But real, fermenting soybeans smell nothing like sauce in a plastic bottle. Tangy and pungent, like rising bread or wet earth, these soybeans smell of history, of life, of tiny, patient movements, unseen by the naked eye.”
Source: Soy Sauce for Beginners
“These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.”
“These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks.”
“These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being separated from their children in the US; border walls are being built and fortified at an unprecedented rate across the globe (there are currently seventy-four in existence). But this much is clear: when walls are built, people will find a way over or under them; when families are separated, they do everything in their power to be reunited; and when women are victims, they find the courage to speak up, to band together, to survive.”
Source: The Silence In Between
“These are strange days we live in
The nights get even worse
The poets died at midnight
In a New York City hearse.
And the news must make you crazy
It has for so long
And the streets are full of fear tonight
And coming on strong...”
“These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.”
“These are taken from inside the fruit of the cacao tree-- Theobroma cacao. It means 'food of the gods.'" He beamed. "Si, señora"-- he tipped the tiny pods into her other palm-- "in your hand, you hold the equivalent of ambrosia. An ambrosia we turn into nectar.”
Source: The Chocolate Maker's Wife