All Quotes

A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.
‐‐ Alana Stewart

A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
‐‐ Brian Floca

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked store of our reading experience.
‐‐ Michel Faber

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
‐‐ Vanessa Redgrave

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
‐‐ Robert Ludlum

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
‐‐ Dario Fo

A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.
‐‐ Tove Jansson

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
‐‐ Franz Liszt

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
‐‐ Emily Giffin

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
‐‐ Karen Armstrong

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.
‐‐ Trofim Lysenko

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
‐‐ Talcott Parsons

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
‐‐ Manfred Eigen

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
‐‐ Manfred Eigen

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

A theory must be tempered with reality.
‐‐ Jawaharlal Nehru

A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

A therapist might suggest my generosity is a way of buying affection. But buying people's love has never been an issue for me. Generally speaking, I don't want their love.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
‐‐ Harold W. Dodds

A thick skin is a gift from God.
‐‐ Konrad Adenauer

A thief believes everybody steals.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and groin. I figure out where they come from and what they utilize most.
‐‐ Jack Falahee

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
‐‐ Zora Neale Hurston

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
‐‐ Aldo Leopold

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
‐‐ John Ruskin

A thing may fail as a poem because it tries to do what a poem cannot do: it tries to become a treatise on cosmic truth... We can best be exact about the cosmic things - God and truth, beauty, eternity and love - by not talking directly about them.
‐‐ Miller Williams

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
‐‐ John Keats

A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
‐‐ Said Nursi

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

A thing well done is worth doing.
‐‐ Hugh Leonard

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
‐‐ Adrienne Rich

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
‐‐ John Lothrop Motley

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.
‐‐ Emily Greene Balch

A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.
‐‐ Louie Schwartzberg

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

A thought is an idea in transit.
‐‐ Pythagoras

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
‐‐ Georges Bernanos

A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet of flowers bought once a year.
‐‐ Penny Jordan