T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The budgets are runnin' low, the streets ain't really got money no more, things are just dryin' up; I just felt like people needed some motivation, so I took 'em "Overtime."”
“The budgets we work on in Congress are more than just fiscal documents; they are a reflection of our moral values as well. In choosing where to spend money, members of Congress choose what priorities they value.”
“The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.”
Source: The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
“The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.”
Source: The Brave Coward
“The buffalo provided the fuel for fires that smoked their own meat.”
Source: Chickadee
“The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong — for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.”
“The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.”
“The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.”
“The Buhha was a monastic, but the practice of mindfulness in the context of any lifestyle is one of renunciation. Every moment of mindfulness renounces the reflexive, self-protecting response of the mind in favor of clear and balanced understanding. In the light of the wisdom that comes from balanced undertanding, attachment to having things be other than what they ar falls away.”
“The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.”
“The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.”
Source: Collected Works
“The building block of every community is family.”
“The building blocks of greatness always lay in the carnage that we see as the destruction of what we had hoped would be great.”
“The building blocks of life come from nature, and upon death they merge back with nature.”
“The building frustrations we put ourselves through, in our mind, have to do with people, places or things. If we lean into these thoughts with kindness and calm, when situations arise we’re able to demonstrate true wisdom instead of losing our temper.”
“The building housing America's military brass is a five-sided pentagon, but somehow, the people in it still manage to make it the squarest place on earth. The latest evidence? A current military document that lists homosexuality as a mental disorder in the same league as mental retardation - noting, of course, the one difference: retarded people can still get into heaven.”
“The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.”
Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
“The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.”
“The building is a tumbling house of cards behind me. The bus bitches are paper cutouts.”
Source: The Jelly Bean Crisis
“The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of Washington. It is one the best designed buildings in D.C. in the last decade.”
“The building looked even more spectacular to Ngozi than it had in Femi’s phone pic.
A pale cream rather than true white, it was two stories high with cappuccino trim and dark,
reflecting windows. A central balcony overlooked the driveway.
“Wow,” Ngozi murmured. “The White House.”
Source: Last Seen in Lapaz
“The building of a computer application is very identical to the building of a house; they both have to be logically designed.”
Source: Accidental Ambassador: A Sailor’s Story From The Forgotten Korean War
“The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps.”
“The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.”
Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation
“The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
Source: Management
“The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.”
“The Building of European Commission would be perfect for a brothel.”
“The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.”
“The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children”
“The building of models encourages to create connections between different ideas and concepts coming from different areas of knowledge.”
Source: BIM Notebooks - 2017
“The building of People’s Organizations is the creation of a set of realignments, new definitions of values and objectives, the breaking down of prejudices and barriers and all of the many other changes which flow out of a People’s Organization. The actual development of these social forces, coupled with the popular education, participation, and reorientation which is part of this whole process, inevitably means significant changes in the attitudes, the philosophies, and the programs of the constituent community agencies as well as the local people.”
Source: Reveille for Radicals
“The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.”
“The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.”
“The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.”
“The building was crowded with men and women packing stuff into boxes and bags, leather stuff, nylon, canvas, and rubber stuff, with brass rings and silver chains, steel buckles and studded straps. Elephant stuff.”
“The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.”
Source: Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files
“The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.”
“The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and apartment blocks that looked nervous. There is murky snow spread out like carpet. There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and gray air.”
“The buildings in the area were diaphanous spreadsheets, their cells like oil slicks”
“The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.”
“The buildup of negative auric vibrations initially impairs our ability to perceive psychically. They can eventually cause us to become ill. Most serious illnesses, including many types of cancer, are the result of auric toxicity.”
“The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.”
“The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.”
“The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list.”
“The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“The bulk of human health issues can be traced to diet and deficiencies in minerals, metals, vitamins and hormones.”
“The bulk of human illness arises out of incorrect environmental conditions.”
“The bulk of hurricane Ian’s deaths were drownings.”