T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!”
Source: The Under Dog: And Other Stories
“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.”
“The deterioration of individual thought has resulted in a morbidly dependent society that has lost its sense of personal responsibility and accountability. Society has devolved into a state of thoughtless stagnancy, accepting the tyrannical laws and deleterious social structures without question or reason. This is the downfall of the human race, and the roadblock to Divinity.”
Source: Perceptions From the Photon Frequency: the ascended version
“The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.”
“The deterioration of the intelligentsia is as much a symptom of disease as the corruption of the ruling class or the sleeping sickness of the proletariat.”
Source: The Yogi and the Commissar, and Other Essays
“The determination and conviction to succeed can only come from within.”
“The determination and enthusiasm of the Category 5 team makes it the perfect home for my music as I embark on this next stage of my career. The promotional savvy and level of support they've pledged meets or exceeds anything I've seen from the major labels I've been associated with.”
“The determination in your heroic effort
Will permeate your mind and heart
Even after your success or failure
Is long forgotten.”
“The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.”
Source: The Business of Life
“The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion.”
“The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for this purpose he requires that an exact measurement may be taken in an equally invariable manner anywhere in the world... Also, the history of electricity yields a well-known truth-that the physicist shirking measurement only plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and the construction of his toys.”
“The determination of the shepherds , braving the elements and the rocky terrain with their sheep and goats, is a reminder of the unbreakable human spirit.”
“The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.”
“The determination that is his biggest strength . . . is also at times his fatal flaw. Like an unthinking machine, he'll just keep shoving, not realizing a step back, a one-night pause, could let some obstacle move out of the way and smooth his path.”
Source: Bull Canyon: A Boatbuilder, a Writer and Other Wildlife
“The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.”
Source: Things A Little Bird Told Me
“The determination to let no one mess up your self-validation is the determination to live a life of meaning.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.”
“The determination to win is the better part of winning.”
“The determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable; and, though its decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, is nevertheless meant for gracious purposes.”
Source: Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution. June, 1775, to July, 1776 (v. 3); July, 1776, to July, 1777 (v. 4); July, 1777, to July, 1778 (v. 5); July, 1778, to March, 1780 (v. 6); March, 1780, to April, 1781 (v. 7); April, 1781, to December, 1783 (v. 8)
“The determined attempt to discredit Robert Mueller, the FBI and the Justice Department is an endeavor to protect the fervent saber rattlers themselves. You see, all this commotion kicked into overdrive once the Special Counsel sought information from Deutsche Bank.”
“The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.”
“The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.”
“The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.”
“The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.”
“The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities that are both sound and more attractive than the average.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
“The detour is always rougher than the main road”
Source: Rest for the Weary
“The detour isn't denial—it might just be Divine design.”
Source: Take a Step with Him Companion Guidebook - Adventuring with God into Fresh Beginnings
“The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.”
“The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.”
“The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble”
“The devastating fire in Lahaina is a reminder about the power of climate change: Transformed vegetation, extreme drought and abnormally high winds causing intense fires.”
“The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.”
“The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.”
“The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral”
“The developed world should be willing to help [Africa] and support her and make this energy affordable.”
“The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.”
“The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.”
“The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.”
“The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.”
Source: Gesammelte mathematische Abhandlungen: Zur anschaulichen Geometrie. Zur Auflösung algebraischer Gleichungen. Physikalisches. Hrsg. von R. Fricke und H. Vermeil
“The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things that are intensive or vertical, where we take our civilization to the next level.”
“The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.”
“The developing world voice can be amplified enormously by support from the wealthy and the privileged, otherwise it's very likely to be marginalized.”
“The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is intrinsically linked to the development of vision machines. The aim, of course, is not only to give vision to a machine but, as in the case of the Cruise missiles that were aimed at Leningrad and Moscow, also to enable a machine to deploy radar readings and pre-programmed maps as it follows its course towards its target.”
“The development and use of willpower is the most direct access to happiness and motivation that I’ll ever have.”
Source: 10 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
“The development and/or revelation of a CEO's potential for great leadership requires slow escalations of experiences that involve pressure, each time given the tools to succeed. Successful experience breeds confidence, as well as an eventual restlessness to try more.”
“The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in the subordinate departments of trade and the law. And the harm, thus considerable in amount, must be necessarily more than merely considerable in degree. For it invariably happens, that when persons in these walks become materialists, they become turbulent subjects and bad men.”
“The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.”
Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition
“The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.”