T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.”
“The definition of woman's work is shitwork.”
“The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.”
“The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.”
“The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open and extensive scientific study by the normal procedures of established science and administrators in universities.”
“The definitive study of the herd instincts of astronomers has yet to be written, Fernie said, but there are times when we resemble nothing so much as a herd of antelope, heads down in tight formation, thundering with firm determination in a particular direction across the plain. At a given signal from the leader we whirl about, and, with equally firm determination, thunder off in quite a different direction, still in tight parallel formation.
(quoting an observation made by astronomer J. Donal Fernie)”
Source: 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
“The definitive words we already know will never fully describe any new moment: because the truth about a moment, is in it. As such, let’s be fully present for every moment so that these newly birthed moments can reveal their truth about what they really are.”
“The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening our eyes to the rejected elements of existence, art may lead us to a more complete and less artificial celebration of the world.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
“The deft hand of the collective consciousness rules humankind. The atavistic echo of ancestral voices guides us in ways that often escapes our conscious, rational minds.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled
shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!”
Source: Complete Poems
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revolution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.”
“The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.”
“The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.”
“The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.”
“The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.”
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“The degradation woven through these steps also seems unwittingly designed to exacerbate, rather than relieve, the humiliating feelings so common in addiction. If moral self-flagellation could cure addiction, we could be sure there would be precious few addicts.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels who had ever labored for their salvation, and that Lamb who had redeemed them with his most precious blood.”
“The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”
Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four
“The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners”
“The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.”
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
“The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.”
“The degree of concentration you give to your dream will determine your success percentage!”
Source: Become a Better You
“The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties that theories have in virtue of their relation to the whole structure of scientific beliefs taken collectively. A measure of conservatism or simplicity would be a metric over global properties of belief systems.”
“The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.”
“The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.”
“The degree of data quality excellence that should be attained and sustained is driven by the criticality of the data, the business need and the cost and time to achieve the defined degree of data quality.”
“The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.”
Source: Make Your Dreams Come True: Simple Steps for Changing the Beliefs that Limit You
“The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.”
“The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.”
Source: De l'esprit; or, Essays on the mind. Transl. To Which are now prefixed, a life of the author and prefatory strictures by W. Mudford
“The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.”
“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.”
Source: From Dictatorship to Democracy
“The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.”
“The degree of my commitment to a cause will not be in direct proportion to the degree that ‘I am willing’ to sacrifice for it. Rather, it will be in direct proportion to the degree that ‘I am sacrificing’ for it.”
“The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.”
“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.”
“The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.”
“The degree of our intellectual growth is inversely proportional to the number of people with whom we are still close friends.”
“The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.”
Source: A Mom After God's Own Heart Growth and Study Guide: 10 Ways to Love Your Children
“The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“The degree of personal freedom that exists in a society is determined more by the economic and technological structure of the society than by its laws or its form of government. Most of the Indian nations of New England were monarchies, and many of the cities of the Italian Renaissance were controlled by dictators. But in reading about these societies one gets the impression that they allowed far more personal freedom than our society does.
In part this was because they lacked efficient mechanisms for enforcing the ruler’s will: There were no modern, well-organised police forces, no rapid long-distance communications, no surveillance cameras, no dossiers of information about the lives of average citizens. Hence it was relatively easy to evade control.”
Source: Industrial Society and Its Future
“The degree of polarization that currently exists in Washington is such where I think it's fair to say if I presented a cure for cancer, getting legislation passed to move that forward would be a nail-biter.”
“The degree of risk is the measure of both the task itself as well as the person who has determined to undertake it.”
“The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”
“The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and clarity of your finite mind and your ability to access your infinite mind.”
“The degree of surprise or shock you experience from disruption correlates to your level of preparedness, perspectives, and your reliance on assumptions.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake.”
Source: Status Anxiety
“The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No
matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.”