T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlook, but now he commanded all men everywhere to repent." Acts 17: 30”
“Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.”
“Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.”
Source: As You Like it
“Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.”
Source: She
“truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.”
Source: Moby Dick, the Whale: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Truly to realize the ambitions of a science of mind does not solely involve learning about such issues as how we know, perceive and solve problems; it involves finding out tow hat extent the world outside us is knowable by us, and indeed prescribing the limits of inquiry for disciplines like Physics which claim to afford knowledge of the external physical world.”
Source: The Search for Mind: Second Edition
“Truly to sing, that is a different breath.”
“Truly to trust someone is to credit them with having good reasons for what they do even if we cannot see or understand what they are.”
Source: How to Survive without Psychotherapy
“Truly, truly, the grace of God is never without any effect.”
“Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.”
Source: City on Fire
“Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.”
“Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)
“Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.”
“Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny is the cruelest thing of all.”
Source: Iphigenia in Aulis
“Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land" (Hosea 4:1). Yet in the midst of this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man.”
“Truly, we are rich - far richer than we think; rich in what we already possess, richer still in the possibilities of production of our actual mechanical outfit; richest of all in what we might win from our soil, from our manufactures, from our science, from our technical knowledge, were they but applied to bringing about the wellbeing of all.”
Source: The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings
“Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!”
“Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.”
Source: King Solomon's Mines
“Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."”
“Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win...not many.”
“Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. If the God-given understanding of your mind does not resist a demand to believe what is impossible, then you will not resist a demand to do wrong to that God-given sense of justice in your heart.”
“Truly world-class firms are always examining their business processes and continuously seeking solutions to improve in key areas, such as lead time reduction, cost cutting, exceeding customer expectations, streamlining processes, shortening time to market for new products, and managing the global operation.”
“Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not to realise as hitherto the opposite of what you mean to attain: deny those good things, withdraw from them the applause of the populace and discourage the spread of them, make them once more the concealed chastities of solitary souls, and say: morality is something forbidden! Perhaps you will thus attract to your cause the sort of men who are only of any account, I mean the heroic. But then there must be something formidable in it, and not as hitherto something disgusting!”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Truly, a command of gall cannot be obeyed like one of sugar. A man must require just and reasonable things; if he would see the scales of obedience properly trimmed. From orders which are improper, springs resistance, which is not easily overcome.”
Source: The Pentamerone, Or the Story of Stories Fun for the Little Ones Translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor
“Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.”
Source: Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice
“Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.”
Source: Dissolution: Tenth Anniversary Edition
“Truly, Autumn is my season,” the scarlet beast chorted. “Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love.”
“Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.”
Source: The last temptation of Christ
“Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.”
Source: Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions
“Truly, God's plan of redemption is about more than me and you and our neighbor down the street. It's about men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation on earth becoming a part of His covenant community.”
Source: Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
“Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.”
Source: Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)
“Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War
“Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.”
“Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling
“Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.”
“Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!”
“Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".”
“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”
“Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.”
“Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
Source: Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three
“Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.”
Source: The Graveyard Book
“Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.”
“Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.”
“Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.”
“Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history.”
“Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!”
“Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.”
Source: On the Heights
“Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.”
“Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.”