T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting.”
“Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our faces, of course) are all important elements of managing a career. One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Do not wait for power to be offered. Like that tiara, it might never materialize. And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?”
“Taking risks gives me energy.”
“Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.”
“Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.”
Source: Forever
“Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it.”
Source: Cheaper Than Therapy: How To Take Risks to Create The Life You Want
“Taking risks will teach you deep ocean things that sea shore experiences will never teach you.”
“Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.”
“Taking sartorial risks and not following other people is what makes you stand out.”
“Taking sides cannot bring peace and balance.”
“Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.”
Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
“Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.”
“Taking situations for granted could become too optimistic over the long term.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.”
“Taking solitude in stride was a sign of strength and of a willingness to take care of myself. This meant - among other things - working productively, remembering to leave the house, and eating well. I thought about food all the time. I had a subscription to Gourmet and Food & Wine. Cooking for others had often been my way of offering care. So why, when I was alone, did I find myself trying to subsist on cereal and water? I'd need to learn to cook for one.”
Source: Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone
“Taking some fresh air is safer than taking a thousand pills.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.”
“Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.”
Source: Bonfire
“Taking something at face value is assuming that the ‘face’ is not a mask.”
“Taking steps is easy
Standing still is hard...
Everything is different
The second time around.”
“Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.”
“Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.”
Source: The Style Strategy: A Less-Is-More Approach to Staying Chic and Shopping Smart
“Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.”
“Taking the Bible seriously should mean taking politics seriously. The major voices in the Bible from beginning to end are passionate advocates of a different kind of world here on earth and here and now. Many American Christians are wary of doing this, for more than one reason. Some are so appalled by the politics of the Christian Right that they have rejected the notion that Christianity has anything to do with politics. Moreover, the word “politics” has negative associations in our time. Many think of narrowly partisan politics, as if politics is merely about party affiliation. Many also dismiss politics as petty bickering, as ego-driven struggles for power, even as basically corrupt. But there is a broader meaning of the word that is essential. This broader meaning is expressed by the linguistic root of the English word. It comes from the Greek word polis, which means “city.” Politics is about the shape and shaping of “the city” and by extension of large-scale human communities: kingdoms, nations, empires, the world. In this sense, politics matters greatly: it is about the structures of a society. Who rules? In whose benefit? What is the economic system like?—fair, or skewed toward the wealthy and powerful? What are the laws and conventions of the society like? Hierarchical? Patriarchal? Racist? Xenophobic? Homophobic? For Christians, especially in a democratic society in which they are a majority, these questions matter. To abandon politics means leaving the structuring of society to those who are most concerned to serve their own interests. It means letting the Pharaohs and monarchs and Caesars and domination systems, ancient and modern, put the world together as they will. In a democracy, politics in the broad sense does include how we vote. But it also includes more: what we support in our conversations, our contributions, monetary and otherwise, our actions. Not every Christian is called to be an activist. But all are called to take seriously God’s dream for a more just and nonviolent world.”
Source: Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most
“Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.”
“Taking the bitter with the sweet makes us better.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Taking the chance is better than living in the hell of not knowing what could have been.”
Source: Elusive Love
“Taking the child's point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents. The child is the clear beneficiary. Parents who make the effort to understand their children's point of view are likely to treat children fairly and in an age-appropriate manner.”
Source: Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance
“Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.”
“Taking the decision is relatively easy, but taking responsibility for our decisions calls for bravery.”
Source: Quantraz
“Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.”
“Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.”
“Taking the first step is the first decision to reaching your final destination”
Source: I AM A WOMAN I AM A HUMAN: UNLEASHING THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL OF WOMEN
“Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.”
“Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.”
“Taking the initiative to enjoy what comes, to share it with others, and to make a difference in whatever you do will be the ultimate yardstick for determining the success of your retirement.”
Source: Retirement is Underrated!: Practical step-by-step guide for making retirement the best time of your life
“Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.”
“Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.”
“Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.”
“Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity”
“Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in society would expect a policeman should do. That temptation hits the police force at the same time as the temptation to take those drugs that are readily available hits the people on the streets.”
“Taking the moon into my soul, I take the night into me.
And, I became a candle in the dark.”
“Taking the moon into my soul, I took the night deeply within.
So, I became a candle in the dark.”
“Taking the moon into my soul, I took the night into me.
And, I became a candle in the dark.”
“Taking the multidimensional hybrid models for going digital is all about how to strike the right balance of reaping quick wins and focusing on the long-term strategic goals.”
Source: Digital Hybridity
“Taking the off beaten path showcases the mettle you ate made up of.”
“Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.”
“Taking the path with the least resistance does NOT mean take any opportunity that comes to you. Some opportunities are traps!”