T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want to run and you resist every step of the three miles, but you do it anyway. You practice whether you want to or not. You don't wait around for inspiration and a deep desire to run ... That's how writing is too ... One of the main aims in writing practice is to learn to trust your own mind and body; to grow patient and nonaggressive.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“This is the premiere food symposium in the world. To quote you guys: 'Intended to invoke a sense of courage and urgency...Enabling this year's symposium to become a venue where we can reflect on the stories and ideas that no one usually gets the opportunity to tell.' So I stand here with the guts to ask you, please, let's do something. Let's do something and feed those that we're not reaching collectively.”
“This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.”
“This is the primary law of social progress – outweigh your inner evil with your inner good, and then radiate that goodness out in the world.”
Source: 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
“This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.”
“This is the private morphology of a family, of two people who fall in love and have children: an enterprise as mundane as it is utterly specific. All at once I see how they form an ingenious organism, an impenetrable collective.”
Source: Whereabouts
“This is the problem about thinking about something else to take your mind off something. It works for a little while, but in the end you always come back to the thing you were trying not to think about, only now whatever it was is worse.”
Source: Kamchatka
“This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.”
Source: The Revolution was
“This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.”
Source: The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of the Prince of Nothing
“This is the problem we have with many Muslim leaders: They claim to differentiate between domestic and foreign issues and they are obsessed with being accepted, at sitting at the table of power in order to talk (or rather to listen) and to be tolerated. This is the starting point of our weakness. It is in our minds because we do not realize we are part of the system.”
“This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].”
“This is the problem with danger, isn't it? You can even be warned and ignore the warning. Danger can seem far away until the sky grows dark, and a bolt of fury heads straight toward you.”
Source: A Heart in a Body in the World
“This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.”
“This is the problem with foreign policy - talking about foreign policy in a political context. Politics is binary. People win and lose elections. Legislation passes or doesn't pass. And in foreign policy often what you're doing is nuance and you're trying to prevent something worse from happening. It doesn't translate well into a political environment.”
“This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.”
Source: The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away
“This is the problem with greatness: it is a summit from which all paths lead downwards, and one cannot stay atop it forever. At least the depths of Hell had Heaven above them, a goal, as difficult as it might seem.”
Source: My Late Life
“This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another.”
Source: Death Valley
“This is the problem with hunger. This is the problem with love. There is no end in sight.”
Source: Wild Milk
“This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story”
“This is the problem with living by instinct. I don't think.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“This is the problem with our story, we have to prove ourselves according to a strict requirement it seems to the outside world, whether it is the extended family or strangers, or even yourselves.”
Source: Heroes Have the Right to Bleed
“This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.”
Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
“This is the problem with the gig economy, I think as I squirm around in the trunk. Everyone is so vulnerable and the rules for what constitutes civilized behavior--well, they're coming apart so quickly I've decided those rules were illusions all along. We have stopped seeing each other as people, as fellow travelers on this dying earth; we just see a gig or an economy.... The system is designed to keep us so depleted that we forget our sense of decency and become so mercenary about our own survival that we have nothing left to contribute to the common good.”
Source: I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
“This is the problem with the way you educate your children. You don't want your young ones drawing their own conclusions. You want them to come to the same conclusions that you came to. Thus you doom them to repeat the mistakes to which your own conclusions led you.”
“This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.”
“This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written. It is the process of salvation to which much Western theology has devoted itself. This is a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, moment-to-moment act of supreme consciousness. It is a choosing and a re-choosing every instant. It is ongoing creation. Conscious creation. Creation with a purpose. It is using the tools of creation we have discussed, and using them with awareness and sublime intention.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“This is the province that pioneered dreaming big.”
“This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out.”
“This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.”
“This is the question I've been waiting for. I should be careful so as to not misspeak. Once words have been planted, they- cannot be removed. From those words, thoughts bloom like a flower, and constantly linger.”
Source: 폭군을 길들이고 도망쳐버렸다 1 [Poggun-eul Gildeurigo Domangchyeobeoryeossda 1]
“This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?”
“This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past, which, without the eternal blah-blah of memories between pals, would long ago have disappeared.”
“This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death. This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life.”
“This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's grown to hate anything to do with love. She isn't evil or corrupt the way that Vaughn is. She's broken. Only broken.”
Source: Sever
“This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.”
“This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.”
“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
Source: The essence of Alan Watts
“This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men.”
Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches
“This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.”
Source: A Stein Reader
“This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.”
“This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.”
Source: Alfred Adler: a portrait from life
“This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.”
“This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You’d think it would be less painful this way.”
Source: Torn
“This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'.”
Source: Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life
“This is the real world, and the fact is, men will fuck almost anything with a pussy. So be the owner of a pussy that makes a man beg for more.”
Source: The Diary of Bink Cummings, Vol 3
“This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil.”
“This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.”
Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
“This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.”
Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
“This is the reality, that these people share the same problems as the rest of us and that those problems can be overcome.”