T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Time and again, in conversation with friends, some of whom have lost family members in this killing spree, there is a sense that one must be going mad: to see so plainly the destruction, the murdered children filmed and presented for the world to look upon and then to hear the leaders of virtually every western nation contend that this is not happening, that whatever is happening is good and righteous and should continue and that in fact the well-being of the Palestinian people demands this continue--it’s enough to feel like you’re losing your mind.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came about through the advent of a new tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global war, or its end.”
“Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.”
Source: The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t
“Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.”
“Time and again we see the same trend: the more victims one defrauds, the more likely the liar will avoid legal repercussions.”
Source: In Fraud We Trust: How Leaders in Politics, Business, and Media Profit from Lies―and How to Stop Them
“Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.”
“Time and again, in every market cycle I have witnessed, the extremes of emotion always appear, even among experienced investors. When the world wants to buy only [bonds], you can almost close your eyes and [buy] stocks.”
“Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.”
Source: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
“Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.”
“Time and again, researchers have shown that students' capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result of teachers' belief in their level of intelligence.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.”
“Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.”
“Time and bravery will get you through anything”
Source: Just One Taste
“Time and chance reveal all secrets.”
Source: New Atalantis
“Time and change are like the ocean— they wash over you, eventually washing you away entirely.”
“Time and change burn some people utterly. One approaches the identification of them as one approaches the scene of a disaster by fire, thankful if one recognizes a glove, a ring, two teeth as belonging to the vanished victim, as having been worn by him; things he touched, used, depended on, signaled with, and therefore part of him.
Moment after moment, day after day this feverish checking is carried out as people move back and forth between the fires of time and change.
And now there is talk of destruction of the world, of human beings reduced to ashes. It is not new. It has happened often.”
Source: Scented Gardens for the Blind
“Time and circumstances change us.
We are sums of our experiences? Or do some of them change us in fundamental ways?”
Source: S.
“Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.”
“Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.”
“Time and death shall depart and say in flying
Love has found out a way to live, by dying.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI: Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim
“Time and death sleep side by side.”
Source: Abhorsen
“Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.”
“Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.”
Source: Scar Tissue
“Time and effective communication are the best medicine in love. Consider all the imbalances and get back to normal. Literally fixing your love life with your partner.”
“Time and effort can get you anything you want in the world. But nothing in the world can get you more time.”
Source: The Hitchhiker Man
“Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.”
“Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or, as here, to treat a specific problem, is of indispensable importance in the maintenance of community health; a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards necessary for a search of evidence of criminal acts.”
“Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious.”
Source: DALE My Personal Picture Album
“Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.”
“Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral”
“Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he is not to worry himself into premature senility.”
“Time and health are two assets that we don't appreciate until they have been depleted.”
“Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”
“Time and how are the mysterious elements of any life.”
Source: Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”
Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
“Time and love are the most valuable possessions you can share.”
“Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.”
Source: Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors
“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”
“Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with - not only sight and boundary, but how one walks through a piece, and what one feels and registers in terms of one's own body in relation to another body.”
“Time and nature do its job, don't wait for you”
“Time and need compels to trust strangers even for a specific time”
“Time and opportunity have no mercy. When they leave you they don’t come back.”
“Time and pains will do anything.”
Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons
“Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my own music business. And that kind of success is as good as I could have ever wished for.”
“Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.”
Source: Three Hundred Æsop's Fables
“Time and priorities go hand in hand. We are only given so much time on this earth, and where we spend it and with whom we spend it matters.”
Source: Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy
“Time and progress are synonymous terms--nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.”
“Time and quiet, everyone counseled, would help. Best not to mention it. Best not to dwell on it, his mother had said. It was a terrible accident. It must have been hot. Windows were open at the time. And time would heal. Somethings were better left unsaid.”
Source: The Guest Book
“Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.”
“Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.”