T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half!”
“To a predator, fear indicates weakness.”
“To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.”
Source: A Life in Letters
“To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.”
Source: Programming Windows
“To a proprietor of a mine, the silver money is a produce with which he buys what he has occasion for. To all those through whose hands this silver afterwards passes, it is only the price of the produce which they themselves have raised by means of their property in land, their capitals, or their industry. In selling them they in the first place exchange them for money, and afterwards they exchange the money for articles of consumption.”
Source: Letters to Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce
“To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration-she cannot be a simple, natural personality.”
Source: High, Wide and Frightened
“To a pure heart all hearts are pure.”
Source: Collected Works
“To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.”
“To a real child anything will serve as a toy.”
Source: Autobiography
“To a realized master, death and rebirth is in every breath. Death is that of body consciousness, ego and limits of the mind. Rebirth is that of the cosmic mind of being the Spirit. In this realization is liberation.
When awake as liberated, each prayer and each moment of meditation is for humanity as there is no more individual ego or identity left. Such realized masters continually gift humanity with the grace of higher consciousness- so that each of us attain our fullest potential in goodness.”
Source: Mastery of Consciousness: Awaken the Inner Prophet: Liberate Yourself with Yogic Wisdom.
“To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?”
“To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.”
“To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.”
“To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.”
Source: Bartleby and Benito Cereno
“To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.”
Source: The French Revolution: a History
“To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.”
“To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."”
“To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.”
“To a social worker working for other is not a job, it is a joy.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.”
Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society
“To a soul which is wide awake, the Judgment Day does not come after death.
For that soul every day is a Judgment Day.
The Judgment Day is every day, and one realizes this as one's sight becomes more keen. Every hour, every moment in life has its judgment.”
“to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.”
Source: Southern Ladies & Gentlemen
“To a space alien or a German Shepherd dog, two humans would be indistinguishable, just as attractive and unattractive space aliens and German Shepherd dogs are difficult for you to tell apart.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.”
Source: I Have Changed
“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”
Source: I Have Changed
“To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.”
“To a statistician, these numbers cannot be used to confirm anything, and so are valueless, because they are chance dispersions. But on psychological grounds I have discarded the idea that we are dealing with mere chance numbers. In a total picture of natural events, it is just as important to consider the exceptions to the rule as the averages. This is the fallacy of the statistical picture: it is one sided, inasmuch as is represents only the average aspect of reality and excludes the total picture. The statistical view of the world is a mere abstraction and their food incomplete and even fallacious, particularly so when it deals with man's psychology.”
“To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.”
“To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.”
“To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.”
Source: Two wasted years, 1943
“To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.”
“To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.”
Source: The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes
“To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him.”
“To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.”
Source: Works
“To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.”
“To a torn heart uncomforted by human nearness a room may open almost human arms, and the being to whom no four walls mean more than any others, is, at such hours, expatriate everywhere.”
Source: The House of Mirth
“To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.”
Source: The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle
“To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.”
Source: The works of Augustus M. Toplady
“To a true collector, the acquisition of an old book is its rebirth,” Oscar quoted, absent self-consciousness.”
Source: The Secret of Lost Things
“To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.”
Source: Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize
“To a valet no man is a hero.”
“To a valet no man is a hero.
[Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]”
“To a value investor, investments come in three varieties: undervalued at one price, fairly valued at another price, and overvalued at still some higher price. The goal is to buy the first, avoid the second, and sell the third.”
“To a versifier, sounds are the means and the aim; a poet travels toward the aim using sounds.”
Source: Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
“To a very great extent the term "science" is reserved for fields that do progress in obvious ways. Nowhere does this show more clearly than in the recurrent debates about whether one or another of the contemporary social sciences is a real science. These debates have parallels in the pre-paradigm periods of fields that are today unhesitatingly labeled science.”
Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, "You may live with me, but don't become my follower." "Whom, then, shall I follow?" "No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth .”
Source: One Minute Wisdom