T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“This is why the words you speak — to yourself and others — carry such tremendous power. They shape your beliefs, influence your emotions, and guide your actions.”
“This is why there is not any artist who takes Internet as the theme. My position is quite the opposite to the current trend of art, but this is exactly why the title of my exhibition is "ART Fahrenheit 451".”
“This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.”
Source: The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis
“This is why there was music. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.”
“This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“This is why tigers have ranges of hundreds of square kilometers," Vlad said. "Robber barons are not really very efficient.”
Source: Red Mars
“This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“This is why true insight is so inconvenient - it destroys all your bubbles.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“This is why unsolicited advice can sound like such judgment. We might mean well, but it still might hurt the other person.”
“This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph.D.s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.”
“This is why we apply the LCD Principle or Lowest Common Democracy. In short, this is social interaction based not on the best possible good, but on the least possible offense. Without saying so, the parties involved have entered into the following arrangement: What is the least we can all agree on and still get along? Of course, you can see this means no one is pleased.”
“this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.”
“This is why we can’t have nice things. You accidentally leave people for dead without checking to make sure they are, in fact, dead.”
Source: The City of Snow & Stars
“This is why we give up on things that break our heart because it requires change.”
“This is why we’re here. All of us. To make the world smile.
Cherish that”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.”
Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)
“This is why we work together," he said. "We're different, but harmonious".”
Source: Wicked Beat
“This is why when people debate faith vs science they've already missed the point. Faith is about embracing truth wherever it's found, and that of course includes science”
Source: What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
“This is why, where art is concerned, the most interesting thing would be to infiltrate the spongiform encephalon of the modern spectator, For this is where the mystery lies today: in the brain of the receiver, at the nerve centre of this servility before 'works of art'. What is the secret of it?
In the complicity between the mortification 'creative artists' inflict on objects and themselves, and the mortification consumers inflict on themselves and their mental faculties.
Tolerance for the worst of things has clearly increased considerably as a function of this general state of complicity.
Interface and performance - these are the two current leitmotifs.
In performance, all the forms of expression merge - the plastic arts, photography, video, installation, the interactive screen. This vertical and horizontal, aesthetic and commercial diversification is henceforth part of the work, the original core of which cannot be located.
A (non-) event like The Matrix illustrates this perfectly: this is the very archetype of the global installation, of the total global fact: not just the film, which is, in a way, the alibi, but the spin-offs, the simultaneous projection at all points of the globe and the millions of spectators themselves who are inextricably part of it. We are all, from a global, interactive point of view, the actors in this total global fact.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping.”
Source: Pulphead: Essays
“This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.”
Source: Where'd You Go, Bernadette
“This is why you play - to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs.”
“This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.”
Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel
“This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.”
Source: Mr. Kiss and Tell
“This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.”
Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz
“This is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.”
“This is wine," Ghoolion said solemnly. "Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle. Wine can be a melody in a cut-glass goblet, but it can also be a cacophony in a dirty tumbler, or a rainy autumn night, or a funeral march that scorches your tongue.”
Source: The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel
“This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.”
“This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.”
Source: No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power
“This is wonderful for a young person, no matter what profession they're in. When you can see something and you can feel this attraction to it, then it becomes less of me trying to teach them as they teach themselves. They've got it and bang off they go.”
“This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.”
Source: Speak
“This is work, yet it isn't working”
Source: Stuck! Now What?: How to reignite your career when it feels flat
“This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.”
Source: A Song for Summer
“This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.”
“This is written in the elder days as the Earth rides close to the rim of eternity, edging nearer to the dying Sun, into which her two inner companions of the solar system have already plunged to a fiery death. The Twilight of the Gods is history; and our planet drifts on and on into that oblivion from which nothing escapes, to which time itself may be dedicated in the final cosmic reckoning.”
“THIS IS WRONG. All people know that Earth is poisoned with perverts and evil things. I am disgusted by fish. I want you to know that Earth is EVIL! I want you to know fish-perversion.”
Source: Crystal Society
“This is wrong. Out of this world wrong.
But then again, so am I.”
Source: Mythology: The Wicked
“This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.”
Source: Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul
“This is your brain on magic.”
“This is your bravery test. You worked so hard and then a crazy-haired guy tells you to throw in a big ol' tree on top of it all.
Take a two-inch brush...”
“This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard flight...one, from...here to there. We'll be cruising at a height of ten feet, going up to twelve and a half feet if we see anything big. And our copilot today is a flask of coffee.”
“This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?”
Source: Misadventurous
“This is your copy of Advanced Potion-Making, is it, Potter?”
“Yes,” said Harry, still breathing hard.
“You’re quite sure of that, are you, Potter?”
“Yes,” said Harry, with a touch more defiance.
“This is the copy of Advanced Potion-Making that you purchased from Flourish and Blotts?”
“Yes,” said Harry firmly.
“Then why,” asked Snape, “does it have the name ‘Roonil Wazlib’ written inside the front cover?”
Harry’s heart missed a beat. “That’s my nickname,” he said.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.”
“This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial. But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this 'kangaroo court'.”
“This is your day." I nodded and tried not to smile. "I'm just your arm candy."
She grinned with a sparkle in her eyes. "I do like candy."
Holy shit. We were flirting.”
Source: Blood Moon
“This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.”
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“This is your dog?" the Dásachtach asked.
"He was a gift," Harris answered in his distant way.
"Do you not think a dog's behavior reflects its master?"
"I do."
"And do you think this dog reflects you well, boy?"
It was a critique, and Harris did not generally take critique well unless he respected the giver very much, but all he said was, "He will.”
Source: Bravely
“This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone.
You don't even care, do you?”
“This is your heart that you hold in your hands, be careful with it, don't lose it, and don't forget that I loved you the same way even though you weren't born to me.”
Source: Magic Lessons