T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.”
“Too often surrender is exhaustion that was teetering on the edge of victory.”
“Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."”
“Too often the achievements of the Islamic civilisation and its strong link to the Western civilisation are limited to scholarly works and academic journals. Moreover, many available works paints a stark picture of confrontation between civilisations when in reality was often one of exchange and mutual dependence.”
Source: Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists
“Too often the change team will engage a leader with success delusion, this look is obvious on their face when you enter their office. They think to themselves, ‘Who is this plebeian and dullard before me?’"
Change Management Handbook - The Leadership of Change Volume 3”
“Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.”
“Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.”
“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.”
Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of the African American and Latino population does live in poverty as compared to the white population, when overall numbers are looked at, it is clear that people of all races, ethnicities, and colors, are represented amongst America's poor.”
“Too often the nature of my existence leaves me viewing paradise as a myth of the most fanciful sort instead of a reality of the most factual sort.”
“Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.”
Source: Black Rednecks and White Liberals
“Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.”
“Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not yet been achieved in reality...Preferences tend to attack one form of discrimination with another...Affirmative action encourages a victim-focused identity, and sends the message that there is more power in our past suffering than in our present achievements.”
“Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.”
Source: In Defence of Politics
“Too often, the risk of careless or needless medical intervention is greater than the dangers of the illness itself.”
Source: How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor: One of America's Leading Pediatricians Puts Parents Back in Control of Their Children's Health
“Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.”
“Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.”
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963
“Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses are understood within the context of trauma. A traumatic stress reaction consists of *natural* emotions and behaviors in response to a catastrophe, its immediate aftermath, or memories of it. These reactions can occur anytime after the trauma, even decades later. The coping strategies that victims use can be understood only within the context of the abuse of a child. The importance of context was made very clear many years ago when I was visiting the home of a Holocaust survivor. The woman's home was within the city limits of a large metropolitan area. Every time a police or ambulance siren sounded, she became terrified and ran and hid in a closet or under the bed. To put yourself in a closet at the sound of a far-off siren is strange behavior indeed—outside of the context of possibly being sent to a death camp. Within that context, it makes perfect sense. Unless we as therapists have a good grasp of the context of trauma, we run the risk of misunderstanding the symptoms our clients present and, hence, responding inappropriately or in damaging ways.”
Source: Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse
“Too often the target is determined by whatever it was that we happened to have hit.”
“Too often the work of a creator is looked upon as a series of isolated testimonies.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Too often, there are no words to describe the heartache of a lost love, only the deafening silence left in its wake, and the unfathomable sorrow that seeps deep into the dark crevices of our frail hearts.”
Source: Pain and Longing: Poetry and Photography
“Too often there are two brushes that we use to paint the canvas of our attitude. One is negative and the other is negative.”
“Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets.”
Source: A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus
“Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart”
“Too often today becomes the tomorrow that we didn’t plan for yesterday.”
“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.”
“Too often truth is doubted, while the error is believed.”
“Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.”
“Too often we allow the lyrics to sneak in under the melody.”
“Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.”
“Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.”
“Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the others, When we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. JUST DO IT.”
“Too often, we are told that anger has no place in the hearts of Christians. As a consequence, we don't know what we're allowed to feel in regard to the wolves that have infiltrated our flocks. EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN CULTURE HAS A WAY OF TRAINING US INTO TIMIDITY to protect the opinions & abuses of others.”
Source: Fire in the Whole: Embracing Our Righteous Anger with White Christianity and Reclaiming Our Wholeness
“Too often, we are unaware of the risks associated with defective trees which can cause personal injury and property damage,-HOW TO INSPECT TREE AND RECOGNIZE HAZARDOUS TREE DEFECTS, Author, V J SMITH, BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK”
Source: FLAVORITE COOKIES BOOK
“Too often we are unwilling to ‘look the fool’ in the pursuit of our passion. Therefore, we forsake our passion. And which, we might ask, is more foolish?”
“Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.”
“Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).”
“Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.”
“Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.”
“Too often, we casually admit our guilt and express regret for the bad decisions made in the past but fail to chart a new course.”
Source: HandCrafted Soul'utions: Investigating the Missing Whole in Your Soul
“Too often we concentrate only on the things we can see now; but our focus should be on that place we can only envision, but will enjoy for all eternity.”
“Too often we confuse ‘discovering who we are’ with ‘discovering who we want to be.’ And if we commit to the former it will take care of the latter.”
“Too often we define love as something that we feel verses something that we give.”
“Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.”
“Too often we forget how powerful we are as individuals to shape how other people see the world. Each one of us constantly broadcasts to other people - whether consciously or unconsciously - verbally or non-verbally - and those messages influence their brain.”
“Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.”
“Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”
Source: The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
“Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.”
Source: The Art of Thinking