T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.”
“The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best.”
“The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.”
“The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.”
“The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.”
“The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.”
“The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.”
Source: Bold love
“The desire for carnal possession quickly cools, whereas the desire to own land never quits the heart of man.”
Source: Clochemerle-Babylon
“The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.”
“The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.”
“The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared”
Source: Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity
“The desire for escape is not a plea for sacrifice, but a yearning to elude the shadows of fear, the sting of pain, and the enduring echoes of suffering.”
Source: Death: Light of Life and the Shadow of Death
“The desire for excellence becomes a reality when an individual sets a standard, reach it and surpass it consistently.”
Source: Become a Better You
“The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.”
“The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.”
Source: You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
“The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.”
“The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.”
“The desire for glory is no different from that instinct for preservation that is common to all creatures. It is as if we enhance our being if we can gain a place in the memory of others; it is a new life that we acquire, which becomes as precious to us as the one we received from Heaven.”
Source: Persian Letters
“The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.”
Source: Battle for Investment Survival
“The desire for gold trumps the honor of many.”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening
“The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.”
Source: Status Anxiety
“The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.”
“The desire for human honour is good but do not forget to seek also heavenly rewards.”
“The desire for human is good but do not forget to seek also the heavenly rewards.”
“The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.”
Source: Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection
“The desire for knowledge begins with searching and seeking.”
“The desire for knowledge shapes a man.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.”
Source: Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch
“The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.”
Source: The Flamethrowers: A Novel
“The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.”
Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.”
“The desire for order is the only order in the world.”
“The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.”
Source: Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments
“The desire for perfection is evidence that God exists. It is a reminder that this imperfect world is not our home. That flaws cause us distress and leave us longing for perfection’s restoration indicates our familiarity with the flawless. We came from Perfection: a place of light and truth and beauty; a place of wholeness and completion; a place of perfect love and perfect peace. The small griefs flaws cause us are expressions of our desires to return to the Home—and to the Parents—from which we came.”
“The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“The desire for possession is only another form of the desire to endure; it is this that comprises the impotent delirium of love. No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession. On the pitiless earth where lovers are often separated in death and are always born divided, the total possession of another human being and absolute communion throughout an entire lifetime are impossible dreams. The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. The shamefaced suffering of the abandoned lover is not so much due to being no longer loved as to knowing that the other partner can and must love again. In the final analysis, every man devoured by the overpowering desire to endure and possess wishes that those whom he has loved were either sterile or dead. This is real rebellion. Those who have not insisted, at least once, on the absolute virginity of human beings and of the world, who have not trembled with longing and impotence at the fact that it is impossible, and have then not been destroyed by trying to love halfheartedly, perpetually forced back upon their longing for the absolute, cannot understand the realities of rebellion and its ravening desire for destruction. But the lives of others always escape us, and we escape them too; they have no firm outline. Life from this point of view is without style. It is only an impulse that endlessly pursues its form without ever finding it. Man, tortured by this, tries in vain to find the form that will impose certain limits between which he can be king.”
Source: The Rebel
“The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.”
Source: Tales from Earthsea
“The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.”
“The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.”
“The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.”
Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
“The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.”
“The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.”
“The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.”
“The desire for sex is actually a feeling of being homesick for a place you’re not sure even exists, one where your heart is full, your soul is nourished, and your body is raptured.
We live in a tent (physical body) while searching for a city whose builder and maker is God (that city is called sensuality).”
“The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this; we are the only creature that tells stories, and sometimes those are true stories and sometimes those are made up stories. Then there are the larger stories, the grand narratives that we live in, which are things like nation and family and clan and so on. Those stories are considered to be treated reverentially. They need to be part of the way in which we conduct the discourse of our lives and to prevent people from doing something very damaging to human nature.”
“The desire for success is inherent within all of us. It is a part of our nature to want to grow, to improve the quality of our lives. However, nothing improves by accident, it requires conscious attention. When you are being bombarded by negatives, improvement, growth and success are easy to forget.”