T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.”
“The blessing of the day is to wake up and start working on your goals as planned.”
“The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.”
Source: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
“The Blessing of the Universe is the Garment of Life. Enjoy its celebration at the Wedding Feast.”
“The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.”
“The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.”
“The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.”
Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment
“The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.”
“The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.”
Source: The Jane Addams Reader
“The blessings of being is the breath of life.”
“The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.”
“The blessings of having the Holy Ghost in your life are enormous. It will lead, guide, enlighten, show, bless, teach, comfort, testify, witness to, and literally purify you. In your life as a missionary, you cannot succeed in any phase of work without the Holy Ghost. You cannot teach or be directed in the work.”
“the blessings of life are like fruits hanging on a tree”
“the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.”
Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California
“The blessings of stupas are such that they benefit all beings, regardless of their connection and motivation. If one participates in a stupa's construction and ritual activities, or honors the completed stupa with an altruistic resolve to benefit all beings, then the blessings are such that the Buddha himself could not describe them.”
“The blessings of the Lord is our greatest wealth.”
“The blessings of the priesthood are infinitely greater than the one who is asked to administer the gift.”
“The blessings we enjoy now are because we made the choice to follow the Savior before this life. To everyone hearing or reading these words, whoever you are and whatever your past may be, remember this: it is not too late to make that same choice again to follow him.”
“The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.”
“The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and explanatory notes. The text ed. by C.C. Clarke
“The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.”
Source: Lord Jim
“The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that.”
“The blind also cry. (Les aveugles aussi pleurent)”
“The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.”
“The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.”
“The blind can see God, the deaf can hear Him, the mute can speak to Him, and the lame can run to Him.”
“The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love.”
“The blind can see reason.”
“The blind cannot see the sun.”
“The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.”
“The blind eate many a flie.
[The blind eat many a fly.]”
“The blind eyes are dead. But we are our hope. (Les yeux d'aveugles sont morts. - Mais nous sommes notre espoir.)”
“The blind faith in some half-assed conspiracy theories lines up with the logic of having to believe in something with no questions asked. It gives us peace and comfort. As simple as I was, I found that resorting to this absolute nonsense was the root of all our problems. It was a road of willingly-learned helplessness, for no action could make a difference, thereby no action was needed.”
Source: An Ishmael of Syria
“the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun and the Sungod blotted out the day of their return.”
Source: The odyssey
“The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.”
Source: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
“The blind man knows he can't see... the fool doesn't.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.”
Source: Reminiscences: 1819-1899
“The blind must rely on the feeble light of fingertips and the painful shape of a cracked shin.”
Source: House of Leaves
“The blind panopticon of capital remains after all, most vulnerable in the realm of ‘magic’ - the manipulation of images to control events, hermitic ‘action at a distance’.”
Source: Millennium
“The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.”
“The blind realization is that humans often pray to what they cannot see and destroy what they can. Yet, it is what humans cannot see that will destroy them.”
“The blind see what they want to see.”
Source: The Da Vinci Code: A Novel
“The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,
The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the runaway son sleeps,
The murderer that is to be hung next day, how does he sleep?
And the murder’d person, how does he sleep?”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement.”
“The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.”
“The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“the blindest people think
they can see the most”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think