T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I’m a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)
“To put it mildly, Beer Geeks are particular about the beer they drink. They don't waste time, money, and liver capacity on bad beer, and they put a formidable amount of thought into the beer they consume. But consume they do, and impressively well.”
Source: The Beer Geek Handbook: Living a Life Ruled by Beer
“To put it mildly, the world is a mess.”
“To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.”
Source: Endless night
“To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.”
“To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.”
“To put it simply: the Holy Spirit bothers us. Because he moves us, he makes us walk, he pushes the Church to go forward. And we are like Peter at the Transfiguration: 'Ah, how wonderful it is to be here like this, all together!' ... But don't bother us. We want the Holy Spirit to doze off ... we want to domesticate the Holy Spirit. And that's no good. because he is God, he is that wind which comes and goes and you don't know where. He is the power of God, he is the one who gives us consolation and strength to move forward. But: to move forward! And this bothers us. It's so much nicer to be comfortable.”
Source: Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday
“To put it simply: There was no bunk about Bogie. He was a man.”
Source: The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
“To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.”
“To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.”
Source: Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995
“To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true (pace Bertrand Russell).”
“To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime: critical analysis skills, the ability to deal with ambiguity and to solve problems, perseverance and a drive for excellence. Moreover, the creative skills children develop through the arts carry them toward new ideas, new experiences, and new challenges, not to mention personal satisfaction. This is the intrinsic value of the arts, and it cannot be overestimated.”
“To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a thing as good. When you say there is such a thing as good, you must assume there is a moral law by which to distinguish between good and evil.”
Source: Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case
“To put mass shootings in perspective, 1,600 times the number of Americans are killed annually on roads as in mass shootings. Of course, one is often the result of human error or inattention, while the other is almost always the result of a deranged mind. But in the end, a life lost is just that: a life lost. Further, the number of gun-related suicides dwarfs the number of gun-related mass killings. There were almost 300,000 gun-related suicides from 2000 through 2015, for an average of more than 18,500 per year. This might well be a problem, but it is surely not the problem that anyone is talking about when they refer to the “epidemic of gun violence.” We react to sensationalistic media coverage of the events that claim the fewest lives, by definition diverting our attention from those that claim the most.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.”
“To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.”
Source: Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic
“To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.”
“To put more American personnel in harm's way without a realistic chance for success is something I'm not in favor of. And a realistic chance for success depends upon having the Iraqis with the will and the ability to fulfill their share of the bargain, and so far they have not.”
“To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.”
“To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.”
Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“To put one brick upon another,
Add a third, and then a fourth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether
What you do has any worth.”
“To put others in front of ourselves is to put God in front of everything.”
“To put simply, “diversity of thoughts” should be the deciding factor the board to embrace inclusiveness.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
“To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.”
“To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.”
“To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed.”
Source: To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian
“To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.”
“To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.”
“To put the question another way, is the brain all there is to us, a fantastically clever machine that creates a mind, which in turn creates an illusory sense of an independent self, which then collapses when
the brain itself starts to die? Or is there such a thing as a separate selfhood, a secret core of self which I imagine as a glossy pearl,
existing separately and staying safe from the most violent assaults on the body and of the body?”
Source: Where Memories Go
“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
“To put things back into perspective, back when we as people were struggling to survive through winters, or even through the night, I feel like there's a lot of whining about whether or not you use Asian or the words Asian or Oriental, and how it's going to offend somebody, I mean give me - I mean, just shut up.”
“To put this in perspective, if most of the animals in the ocean are bioluminescent (from single-celled bacteria to colossal squid) then a majority of the creatures on the planet are communicating using language-of-light dialects that we don’t comprehend.”
“To put to rest any doubts you might have… I’m jealous of every man who comes within ten feet of you. I’m jealous of the clothes on your skin and the air you breathe. I’m jealous of every moment you spend out of my sight”
“To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.”
“To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.”
“To put your full belief in your Guru, because it's for your own good, because you've decided that... It's just having a lot of respect for the person and it's like that with music as well...You should love your instrument and respect it.”
“To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.”
“To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.”
Source: Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer
“To put your trust in a man is a trap.”
“To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.”
“To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.”
“To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.”
Source: Elie Wiesel, messenger to all humanity
“To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.”
Source: Collected essays
“To queer, as a verb, means to disrupt, to defy the binary.”
“To quench the thirst for deeper love and stronger bonds, one must remember to laugh and love like a child.”
Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
“To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan”
“To question or not to question - that is the question.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“To question reason is to trust it.”
“To question the existence of a purpose is to evidence our need for one.”