T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.”
Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.”
“The Coming
When apple-birds have drowned themselves in milk,
the old bones take it well. They gather smoke
to ink the mountainsides with letters of
regret. And when the moon burns through its orbit,
men take cover in cramped rooms, while all
the dead begin to roil within the ground.
And as He comes, the night completes itself.
The end arrives as if a telegram,
in series, inconsolably. And if
they wish to suckle the Messiah's breast,
it is too late, He's dry. Look to the stars—
a trumpet and a train conclude the sky.”
Source: Heaven
“The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.”
“The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma."”
“The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.”
“The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.”
“The command for praying is to purify self.”
“The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.”
“The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.”
“The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper legal relationship - for example, to think of a man as legally lost, which he is, in the sight of a holy God - without thinking of him as a person. Saying this, we can suddenly see that much evangelism is not only sub-Christian, but subhuman - legalistic and impersonal.”
Source: True Spirituality
“The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.”
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“The command of custome is great.”
Source: Works: In Prose & Verse
“The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.”
Source: Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
“The command of the old despotisms was "Thou shalt not". The command of the totalitarians was "Thou shalt". Our command is "Thou art".”
Source: 1984
“The command of Yahweh: 'Be fruitful and multiply,' is an entirely patriarchal one; he is not invoking the Great Mother but bidding his sons beget still more sons.”
Source: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“The command to be free is a double bind”
“The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.”
“The command to the Twelve to go out and proclaim the Good News is also valid for all Christians, though in a different way.... the Good News of the kingdom which is coming and which has begun is meant for all people of all times. Those who have received the Good News and who have been gathered by it into the community of salvation can and must communicate and spread it.”
Source: On evangelization in the modern world: Apostolic exhortation Evangelii nuntiandi, December 8, 1975
“The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.”
“The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.”
“The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.”
Source: My American Journey
“The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. In my experience, the people closest to the problems are often in the best position to see the solutions. The key here is to empower and not be the bottleneck.”
“The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their practical application. He must see to it that his subordinates are trained in accordance with the latest requirements. The best form of welfare for the troops is first-class training, for this saves unnecessary casualties.”
“The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.”
“The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.”
“The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius
“The Commander’s lying is a more...recent event.”
“But he didn’t tell you about Owen.”
“Oh, he’s kept things from me before, but he’s never looked me in the eye and lied.”
“What changed?” she asked.
What indeed? “I suspect a few things.”
“Such as?”
“Not here, love. Janco’s far more interested in our conversation than his dreams.”
“Am not,” Janco said, not in the least embarrassed he’d been caught eavesdropping. “Besides, I don’t have dreams, I have nightmares.”
Before Janco could launch into a detailed description, Valek said, “Then we’ll let you get back to them.”
Source: Night Study
“The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.”
“The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.”
“The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.”
“The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our their ought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.”
“The 'commandment' of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be 'commanded' because it has first been given.”
Source: God is Love: Deus Caritas Est
“The commandment of the Lord is a lamp to light our path.”
“The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.”
“The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly love and care for one another. We sense the importance of these relationships when we realize that our greatest expressions of joy or pain in mortality come from the members of our families”
“The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.”
“The commandment to imitate Jesus does not appear suddenly in a world exempt from imitation; rather it is addressed to everyone that mimetic rivalry has affected. Non-Christians imagine that to be converted they must renounce an autonomy that all people possess naturally, a freedom and independence that Jesus would like to take away from them. In reality, once we imitate Jesus, we discover that our aspiration to autonomy has always made us bow down before individuals who may not be worse than we are but who are nonetheless bad models because we cannot imitate them without falling with them into the trap of rivalries in which we are ensnarled more and more.”
Source: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
“The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.”
Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.”
“The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself.”
“The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.”
Source: President Wilson's Addresses
“The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.”
“The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.”
“The commands of God is to make us conscious of sin.”
“The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along. If you try to come back after doing a paragraph and stick them in the various spots that tempt you you will discover that they tend to swarm like minnows into sorts of crevices whose existence you hadn't realized and before you know it the whole long sentence becomes immobilized and lashed up squirming in commas. Better to use them sparingly, and with affection, precisely when the need for each one arises, nicely, by itself.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“The commemoration of Christ's saving Passion is at hand, and the new, great spiritual Passover, which is the reward for dispassion and the prelude of the world to come. Lazarus proclaims it in advance by coming back from the depths of Hades and rising from the dead on the fourth day just by voice and command of God, Who has power over life and death (cf. Jn. 11:1-45).”
Source: The homilies
“The commemorative events in Gander that I was part of exceeded what most American cities (especially small towns) were doing to make the 9/11 tenth anniversary. Perhaps Americans still didn't see anything good to celebrate. For America, the anniversary is a day of mourning. In Gander, it is a reminder of how they helped the world.”
Source: Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11
“The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.”