T Quotes
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“To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.”
Source: Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
“To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.”
Source: The Idiot (English German edition illustrated): Der Idiot (Englisch Deutsch ausgabe illustriert)
“To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training.”
“To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.”
“To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.”
“To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“To a criminal, honesty is foolish.”
Source: East of Eden
“To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.
To find that answer, we need only look within ourselves.
When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things--such as goodness, decency, love, kindness.
Greatness comes in simple trappings.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969
“To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed.”
“To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.”
“To a degree that we seldom realize, we depend upon the participation of others in our lives, and upon our own participation in the lives of others. Our success and effectiveness as persons is based upon this participation, and upon an ability to maintain a controlling competence in communicating with others.”
Source: The Invention of Culture
“To a degree, these activists are right; a whore is a whore is a whore, and legal, moral or procedural lines serve only to break people into smaller groups which are more easily dominated by the power-hungry. If you accept money from someone that he gives due to sexual interest in you, then you are a whore and everything else is just semantics.”
Source: The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I: Collected Essays from "The Honest Courtesan"
“To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills.”
Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?
“To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.”
“To a Depressed Friend
Sometimes, to make sure
You're still here,
Look up for cloud sustenance.
Be sure they are
Different from yesterday,
From an hour ago,
From when you were 15
And sky didn't matter
Because only pretty girls did.
Note how cumulus
Will be looking down
And naming what
Kind of human you're
Shaped like: mailman,
Archaeologist, student of rain.
On clear nights, rely on starlight.
Pentacles. Pulses.
Further proof of existence.”
Source: Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems
“To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of car keys is enough to send most any dog into a whimpering, tail-wagging frenzy.”
“To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.”
Source: Drinking: A Love Story
“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”
Source: A Year with Emerson: A Daybook
“To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
“To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.”
Source: The Tragedies of Euripides
“To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.”
“To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.”
“To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.”
“To a fisherfolk, everyone was a gryphon and everyone was an opinicus.”
Source: Eyrie
“To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.”
Source: Sitka: A Novel
“To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“To a friend, in an unguarded moment, he [Maxim Gorky, 1932] declared his ambition: simply to portray the world and man as they were, without the myth of love, ‘repudiating nothing, praising nothing’; repudiation was unjust, while praise was premature—‘for we live in chaos and ourselves are fragments of chaos.’ He compared his desire with Einstein, ‘trying to alter radically our representation of the universe.”
Source: Stormy Petrel: The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky
“To a friend, in an unguarded moment, he [Maxim Gorky, 1932] declared his ambition: simply to portray the world and man as they were, without the myth of love, ‘repudiating noting, praising nothing’; repudiation was unjust, while praise was premature—‘for we live in chaos and ourselves are fragments of chaos.’ He compared his desire with Einstein, ‘trying to alter radically our representation of the universe.”
Source: Stormy Petrel: The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky
“To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.”
“To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."”
Source: Selected poems
“To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?”
“To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.”
Source: The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.
“To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.”
“TO A GIRAFFE
If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal
to be personal and undesirable
to be literal—detrimental as well
if the eye is not innocent-does it mean that
one can live only on top leaves that are small
reachable only by a beast that is tall?—
of which the giraffe is the best example—
the unconversational animal.
When plagued by the psychological,
a creature can be unbearable
that could have been irresistible;
or to be exact, exceptional
since less conversational
than some emotionally-tied-in-knots animal.
After all
consolations of the metaphysical
can be profound. In Homer, existence
is flawed; transcendence, conditional;
“the journey from sin to redemption, perpetual.”
Source: Complete Poems
“To a good man nothing that happens is evil.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.”
Source: Grant Me Wisdom
“To a good spender God is the Treasurer.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert
“To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.”
“To a great extent, friluftsliv is made possible by the Swedish common law of allemansratten (the right of public access), which grants anybody the right to walk, ride a bike or horse, ski, pick berries, or camp anywhere on private land, except for the part that immediately surrounds a private dwelling. In short, that means you can pick mushrooms and flowers, as well as light a campfire and pitch a tent, in somebody else's woods, but not right in front of their house... allemansratten relies on an honor system that can simply be summed up with the phrase "Do not disturb, do not destroy," and trusts that people will use their common sense.”
“To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America.”
“To a great extent, violence is a part of our culture. It amazes me that violence is readily accepted as the norm. We can see that, when movie producers don’t hesitate to show extreme bloodletting and the horrible way some of us treat our fellow human beings. As a result, we are not shocked when we hear about the slaughter of innocent people on the streets or in our schools. We protect our right to carry firearms never considering that our perception of what the second amendment says has been molded by special interest groups, who are ready to fight for any issue they are paid to promote. Lately I’ve had to wonder just how civilized we really are. Consider the issues we face every day and ask if we really have “Liberty & Justice for all?” Are we all equal under the law or are some of us more equal than others? Do we really live in a democracy or is it just an allusion and finally what would our founding fathers expect of us?”
“To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.”
“To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”