T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America.”
“This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they've forgotten how to listen and look as children. They've forgotten how to collect data. In the psychic sense a forest fire on TV is on a lower plane than a ten-second spot for Automatic Dishwasher All. The commercial has deeper waves, deeper emanations. But we have reversed the relative significance of these things. This is why people's eyes, ears, brains and nervous systems have grown weary. It's a simple case of misuse.”
Source: White Noise
“This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.”
Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
“This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.”
“This is what daily working is like at the very high altitude Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO): Get the workers up the mountain as fast as possible with a short stop for breakfast. Tell the workers to take the company supplied drugs to do their jobs and get the sickened workers off the mountain as fast as possible at the end of the work day. The sickened workers spend their evenings feeling really crappy and repeat the cycle again the next day.”
“This is what Danny loves about her. She is so infinitely astounded by the world.”
Source: Love Is an Algorithm
“This is what dating is like, I thought, this horrible mix of boredom and fear and humiliation and confusion.”
Source: The Season of Second Chances
“This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.”
Source: This Lullaby
“This is what democracy is all about. People have every right to protest whoever's in the White House, without fear of persecution. If this happened in Iran, people would be shot on the streets. This is the United States of America, and we have a First Amendment that protects this kind of speech.”
“This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.”
Source: Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean
“This is what distinguishes communities that thrive from those that dissolve into pleasant but ineffective social clubs: structure that enables rather than constrains, purpose that transcends individual benefit, and practices that build what regenerative momentum.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.”
Source: White Teeth
“This is what Donald Trump understands. This is the trade deficit. We run a trade deficit of close to $800 billion a year.”
“This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.”
Source: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories
“This is what engineers in Silicon Valley typically do. "Ok, well, of course there are some problems of our technology because it is so excellent and is so global so we are just gonna build a better one."”
“This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do? Immediately you start living. You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will work, you will have a chit-chat, you will sing, you will dance - what else is there to do?”
“This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.”
“This is what everybody's forgetting about [Barak] Obama and his immigration law and his executive action and his amnesty on it, the Supreme Court decision. Immigration law is settled.”
“This is what evil does; it makes choices for others in the name of religion, in the name of government, in the name of community, in the name of personal gain, that these individuals are best able to make for themselves.”
Source: Blythe
“This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.”
Source: The Life that Really is
“This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.”
Source: Aristophanes with the English translation of Benjamin Bickley Rogers
“This is what faith is all about. It’s about being just and fair’. When the girl had completed her studies, she returned home to look after her elderly parents. That’s the power of love. Trust your children and they will value your trust, and be bound by the freedom you give them.”
Source: Reham Khan
“This is what family does — we argue, we fall out with each other, but we always find our way back.”
Source: The Broken Vows
“This is what family is, I realize. To never be alone.”
Source: Aurora's End
“This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?”
“This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more.”
Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
“This is what grace does. It rescues us from our spiritual blindness. It releases us from our bondage to our rationalism and materialism. Grace gives us the faith to be utterly assured of what we cannot see. It frees us from refusing to believe in anything we cannot experience with our physical senses. But grace does more. It connects us to the invisible One in an eternal love relationship that fills us with joy we have never known before and gives us rest of heart that we would have though impossible. And that grace is still rescuing us, because we still tend to forget what is important, real, and true. We still tend to look to the physical world for our comfort. We still fail to remember in given moments that we really do have a heavenly Father. Grace has done a wonderful thing for us and continues to do more and more.”
Source: New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional
“This is what had always happened to women when they had too much time to think: they made themselves conduits to all the passions in the universe, they dreamed open all the possibilities that sane hard-working people kept shut away.”
Source: The Master Bedroom
“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”
“This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind. Pieces of her in Vietnam, some in this place of bone. She brought the letter to her nose. The smell of Vietnam: a mix of jungle and wetness and spices and rot. A smell she hadn't realized she missed.”
Source: The Lotus Eaters
“This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.”
“This is what happens in politics. The establishment doesn't like Ted Cruz either. It's not just Donald Trump. That's because he is who he is. He is conservative. He does want to get government out of people's lives and that - we can't have that in the establishment.”
“This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.”
“This is what happens: the sensitive and honest man opens his heart, and the business man listens and takes it all in, so that he can swallow up the honest fellow.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“This is what happens to man in death. He puts off his overcoat, or what we call the physical, the gross body, and he is clothed in what, for the time being, I would call the astral body. The man continues to be the same, even as I would continue to be the same, if I took off this shawl. I would then appear to you in my shirt, but I would continue to be the same man.”
“This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.”
“This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.”
Source: He's Gone: A Novel
“This is what happens when one group of Americans are taught generationally to believe they are the sole, true owners of a country their ancestors seized from the indigenous and reaped via the blood and toil of others they never viewed as fully human.
(1/6/2021 on Twitter)”
“This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly the same vocabulary and syntax as any widgetmaking industry. Books are reformulated as 'product' - like screwdrivers or flea-bombs or soap - and the majority of writers are perceived as typists with bad attitudes.”
“This is what happens when the state intervenes in a person’s private life; it creates two separate personas. It compels you either to lead two separate lives, or to violate what’s imposed on you
when the state isn’t looking.”
Source: Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
“This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.”
“This is what happens when you break with one life to live another–it causes a doubling. Knowing eleven at night here is seven in the morning there. Some part of you is always in conversation with that other self.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“This is what happens when you don't let gays marry; they start designing clothes out of spite.”
“This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.”
“This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.”
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”
“This is what happens when you take a step: you are moving closer to what you want.”
“This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.”
Source: Before I Fall
“This is what happens with a breakthrough. The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken. Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.”
Source: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama