T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.”
“The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.”
“The best-adjusted people are the
‘psychologically patriotic,’ who are glad to be what they are.”
Source: Gifts differing: understanding personality type
“The best-case scenario here is that you make friends with a boy who's going to die." "Ah," said Calla, in a very, very knowing way. "Now I see." "Don't psychoanalyse me," her mother said. "I already have. And I say again, 'ah'.”
“The best-case scenario is everything goes perfect and smooth, but we're also a new and weird show. So all my conversations were, "Hey last night didn't go perfect but we kind of know what we've got in store for everybody episode-wise."”
“The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?”
“The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner
“The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.”
“The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.”
“The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.”
Source: Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living
“The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.”
Source: Ethics
“The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.”
Source: Ethics
“The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.”
“The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”
“The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.”
“The best-looking girls don't do anything, they just sort of know they're beautiful, especially in jeans and a hoodie.”
“The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.”
Source: Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page
“The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.”
“The bet comes to the place it knows,
It does not miss its former path,
No kind of magic holds it back
It comes to those who give it water.”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“The Beta Male is seldom the strongest or the fastest, but because he can anticipate danger, he far outnumbers his Alpha Male competition. The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male.”
“The betrayal had been a shock, for sure, but, as time passed, he began to feel as if it couldn’t have been helped, as if this had been his fate all along.”
Source: Men Without Women
“The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her.”
Source: The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)
“The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.”
“The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.”
“The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.”
“The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!”
“The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.”
“The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.”
“The better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies.”
“The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.”
“The better a wine, the harder it is to describe, and the best are beyond words.”
Source: The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting: Combined Edition
“The better a work environment is, the better it is for the employer - not just the employee.”
“The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.”
“The better alternative to fighting a guy, go have sex with his girlfriend. That's how you knock a dude out!”
“The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.”
“the better angels of our nature”
“The better cancer patients understand why they are here on this planet and what their spiritual purpose is, the better their prognosis for survival.”
“The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.”
Source: Rates of Exchange
“The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.”
“The better day, the worse deed.”
“The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
“The better I get, the more I realize how much better I can get.”
“The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.”
“The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.”
“The better it is, the more effort it takes.”
Source: Private Owens: A George Owens Novel
“The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.”
“The better news is that as we transform how we generate energy, how we move ourselves around, how we grow our food and how we live in cities, we have a historic opportunity to build a society that is fairer on every front, and where everyone is valued. Here's how we do it. We make sure that, wherever possible, our renewable energy comes from community-controlled providers and cooperatives, so that decisions about land use are made democratically and profits from energy production are used to pay for much-needed services.”
Source: On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
“The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.”
“The better Option than to Change my Character is to Change your Gender”