T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.”
Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)
“Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds.”
“Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.”
“Those who want rain, must also accept the mud.”
“Those who want respect, give respect.”
“Those who want situations advertise”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Those who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to success, but they must also understand that the soil that they entrust to the seed is just as vital Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?.”
“Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.”
“Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.”
“Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?”
“Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.”
“Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.”
“Those who want to buy wisdom remain with out wisdom, because money buys nothing except commodities.”
“Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.”
“Those who want to do harm, they'll do harm whether they have nukes at their disposal or bow and arrow.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Those who want to get wet need no umbrella!”
“Those, who want to go to moksha (ultimate liberation), do not need actions. Those who want to go to the abode of celestial beings (heaven), those who desire worldly happiness, they need actions. Those who want Moksha (Ultimate liberation), they need only Knowledge (Gnan) and the Gnani’s Agna (enlightened being’s directives), only these 2 things are required.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first step; it is the first action; it is the first move before any move, it is the first of everything!”
“Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.”
“Those who want to learn more than bread and butter shall be able to make this world a better place ...”
Source: Destiny Re scripted
“Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“Those who want to power know no mercy.”
“Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.”
“Those who want to sell me something greatly reduce their chances of selling me that thing by smiling at me.”
“Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.”
“Those who want to sink will surely seek and find an impending shipwreck. - On Human Stupidity.”
Source: To Life from the Shadows: Conversations with the Light
“Those who warned that Gorbachev was being put under too much pressure were wrong.”
“Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.”
“Those who waste bread will be condemned to as many years in purgatory as the number of crumbs wasted and will have to pick those crumbs up, one by one, with their eyelids.”
“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.”
Source: Three plays
“Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.”
“Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds”
“Those who were afraid of the dark and always refused to throw themselves inside it. Never got to see and feel how beautiful it is, to meet and greet one's own demons.”
“Those who were brutalized sometimes became brutal in return.”
Source: Lost Stars
“Those who were busy to wish you a Happy Birthday
Will be Less busy to wish you Rest In Peace. We cherished the Dead the the Living.”
“Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.”
“Those who were gay were told they were ‘too close’ to the work, and, according to one former senior clinician, anyone who spoke out was ‘made to feel hysterical’ in some way. ‘The more anxious and worried you became, the more it was framed that you weren’t really someone who could handle it.’ It was ‘a brilliant way to divert it away from what we’re actually doing, which was changing children’s bodies’, they say. It is not credible to explain away the concerns of so many experienced clinicians either by accusations of transphobia or allegations that they are simply not up to the task at hand.”
Source: Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
“Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.”
Source: The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection
“Those who were molested or beaten as children or teenagers might later be vulnerable to sexual abuse or violence, because their natural impulses to protect themselves and protest (physical and verbal) were extinguished. Expectation of hurtful treatment by others or one's own failed capabilities can stubbornly persist despite overwhelming evidence that such is no longer the case.”
“Those who were oblivious to, or content with, the situation lived relatively peaceful lives, but those who exercised their democratic right to advocate for change – either from inside or outside the system – were bullied, ignored, discredited, or terrorised, while systemic corruption within the police force and sections of the government (and that government’s perversion of the Westminster doctrine of separation of powers) allowed criminal elements to prosper. The situation in which the public was monitored and restricted while corrupt police sanctioned criminal behaviour was hardly conducive to social or recreational bliss. Activists and alternatives devised their own entertainment, and those with a penchant for illegal casinos and prostitutes were well catered for; but the people of mainstream Brisbane took turns in the Hilton’s glass elevator.”
Source: We'll Show the World: Expo 88 – Brisbane's Almighty Struggle for a Little Bit of Cred
“Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest. For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that. Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline.”
Source: Borderliners
“Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.”
Source: The British Essayists: Containing the Spectator, with Notes and General Index, and the Tatler and Guardian, with Notes and General Index
“Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief inside me, the more I understand that. It’s as if sunshine is a slap in the face that says, Look, the world’s all bright and shiny! Too bad you’re not.”
Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series
“Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies, but when a melodic line is thwarted.”
“Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.”
Source: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
“Those who whisper freedom to your ears are the greatest threats to your existence.”
“Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives and the land.”
“Those who will have studied the past that can define the future will succeed as other who don't will have misled full of lies.”
“Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.”