T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.”
“Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.”
“Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.”
“Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs as a normal songwriter, and almost make them generic. The artists themselves, whoever is singing that song, can put their own twist on it. When it came to my own material, I had to really dig deep, because I was just writing generic stuff. It sounded like everybody else, like Justin Timberlake, like Usher. I never wanted to sound like someone, that's when you know it's not going to work.”
“Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.”
“Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.”
“Trying to merit grace by preceding works, therefore, is trying to placate God with sins, which is nothing but heaping sins upon sins, making fun of God, and provoking His wrath.”
“Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just end up eating just anywhere, you know, you see a bunch of Venetians sitting around smoking cigarettes, eating something unrecognizable in a dark alley somewhere, chances are it's interesting.”
“Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming
at a child, “Do something, dammit!” You’ll either
freeze up or act in counterproducti ve ways. Fear
widens the knowing-doing gap. Don’t use it.”
“Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.”
“Trying to obey and serve God before we've come to love Him can be exhausting.”
“Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.”
“Trying to order your world so that its predictable and safe is counterproducti ve to growth.”
“Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.”
Source: In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)
“Trying to outrun and outsmart vulnerability and pain is choosing a life defined by suffering and exhaustion.”
Source: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.”
Source: The Elements of Programming Style
“Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.”
“Trying to pause or stop vaccination is a aggressive approach.”
“Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.”
“Trying to pick the stocks that outperform the average is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.”
Source: The Million Dollar Decision: Get Out of the Rigged Game of Investing and Add a Million to Your Net Worth
“Trying to play my part and stay home,
Burying my nose in a book like a gnome,
But I know how Rapunzel felt in the tower
When she wanted to feel the rain shower...
It's like being in your forties out of a fort
When your forte is dancing barefoot...
Instead of being trapped I chose to cut short,
To leave the port,
And not go kaput!”
Source: The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
“Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.”
“Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.”
“Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.”
“Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.”
“Trying to please everyone is like trying to fly. Take it from me, worst experience ever.”
“Trying to please everyone is like trying to please Satan, you're going to get your fingers burnt.”
Source: Quotes To Remember - 100 Motivational Quotes
“Trying to please everyone is the best way to displease everyone.”
“Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.”
“Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen.”
“Trying to predict the future is a mug’s game. But increasingly it’s a game we all have to play because the world is changing so fast and we need to have some sort of idea of what the future’s actually going to be like because we are going to have to live there, probably next week.”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”
“Trying to pretend to be someone you're not. It never turns out how you think it will. There's a time limit on pretending. It simply isn't possible to live a lie for long.”
Source: The Cherry Tree Café
“Trying to prioritize among things we're unlikely to do is pretty fruitless.”
“Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.”
Source: Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of
“Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.”
Source: The Psychopath Test
“Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.”
“Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.”
“trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.”
“Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.”
Source: Imperfect Birds: A Novel
“Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.”
“Trying to remember you
is like carrying water
in my hands a long distance
across sand. Somewhere people are waiting.
They have drunk nothing for days.”
“Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.”
“Trying to retain his enthusiasm, he led her toward the opening in the overgrown boxwood hedge where a pair of musk rose bushes formed a thorny turnstile, marking the exit from the garden to the fallow fields and woods beyond. They stopped to take deep, lung-filling inhalations of the musk roses' delicious, honeylike perfume. Exclaiming with unaffected joy at the roses' late-blooming beauty, Alice cupped one of the creamy white blossoms gracefully in her gloved hand. He picked one, pulled off the thorns, and offered it to her. She took it in silence, searching his face warily, then turned away and walked on. Lucien just stood there watching her, praying he wouldn't do anything wrong.”
Source: Lord of Fire
“Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.”
“Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?”
“Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!”
“Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.”
“Trying to say something is all you got in life.”