All Quotes

The tradition and style of the 'New York Times' make it very difficult to have objective coverage of China. If we could purchase it, its tone might turn around.
‐‐ Chen Guangbiao

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
‐‐ Akiva ben Joseph

The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.
‐‐ Yo-Yo Ma

The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
‐‐ Ryszard Kapuscinski

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.
‐‐ Roger Clemens

The traditional American family has always been the foundation for success in America.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
‐‐ Carroll Quigley

The traditional family table is round. No corners. No sides. No head. No tail. Everything is smooth. The food is in the center, and each family member reaches over the same distance. Someone you love is next to you on each side, and no one is last or at the end. The person farthest away from you is also the person facing you.
‐‐ Deng Ming-Dao

The traditional Hollywood system is pretty rigid, but the film scene in, say, South Africa is booming with a lot of possibilities. If you have the cameras and reasonable capital, you can put your film in theatres next to 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' A great example of that was Kagiso Lediga's film 'Blitz Patrole.'
‐‐ Hasan Minhaj

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.
‐‐ Michael Hansmeyer

The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.
‐‐ Harold H. Greene

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.
‐‐ Kay Bailey Hutchison

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'
‐‐ James Heckman

The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.
‐‐ Deborah Moggach

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.
‐‐ Lee Greenwood

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.
‐‐ Jimmy Carr

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
‐‐ Shirley Hazzard

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
‐‐ Paul Watson

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
‐‐ Douglas Hurd

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
‐‐ Rafael Palmeiro

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
‐‐ Brenda Ueland

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
‐‐ Henry Miller

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.
‐‐ Jenny Weber

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
‐‐ Heywood Broun

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
‐‐ Benjamin E. Mays

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
‐‐ Vaclav Havel

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
‐‐ Edward Abbey

The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
‐‐ Allen Klein

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
‐‐ Maggie Gallagher

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
‐‐ Harry Emerson Fosdick

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
‐‐ Bill Nelson

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.
‐‐ Greg Kinnear

The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

The tragic thing about the Internet is that you can find out way too much, way too quickly.
‐‐ Christopher McCulloch

The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.
‐‐ Anthony Foxx

The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, it has always stood for what is best and worst about the history of the United States.
‐‐ Joseph Bruchac

The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.
‐‐ Joseph Bruchac

The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.
‐‐ Brian J. White

The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
‐‐ Gary Lineker

The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

The train we had so confidently boarded had been speeding at almost 100 miles an hour and it had derailed. Someone, I can't remember who, showed me a newspaper photograph of the carriage we had been sitting in tilted on its side on a station platform next to a large notice that said Welcome to Potters Bar.
‐‐ Nina Bawden

The trained mind is a rich mind.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio