T Quotes
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“To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.”
“To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.”
“To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.”
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.”
Source: What Painting Is
“To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.”
“To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.”
Source: West with the Night
“To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and it radiates from you as a brilliant aura: You become love, practice fearlessness, and attain enlightenment.”
“To an ego, being ignored is equivalent to annihilation. To not exist is any ego’s greatest fear. It is a warranted fear because the ego does, in fact, get annihilated in proportion to the growth of one’s spiritual realisation. However, the rewards of spiritual development so outshine the feeble offerings of the ego that it is an insignificant price to pay. Does one begrudge paying a small price for something invaluable?”
Source: Faith
“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”
“To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.”
“To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.”
“To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.”
“To an extent that undermines classical standards of science, some purported scientific results concerning 'HIV' and 'AIDS' have been handled by press releases, by disinformation, by low-quality studies, and by some suppression of information, manipulating the media and people at large. When the official scientific press does not report correctly, or obstructs views dissenting from those of the scientific establishment, it loses credibility and leaves no alternative but to find information elsewhere.”
“To an eye of reason, everything that respects the conversion of the heathen is as dark as midnight; and yet I cannot but hope in God for the accomplishment of something glorious among them.”
Source: The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.”
Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
“To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.”
“To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas”
Source: The Path of the Law
“To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.”
Source: The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life
“To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary”
Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics
“To an MP bouncing up and down with interruption after interruption during one of his speeches, an exasperated Churchill advised, 'The honourable gentleman should really not generate more indignation than he can conveniently contain.”
“To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
“To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.”
Source: The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus
“To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.”
“To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.”
“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.”
“to an uncircumcised father, irreverent son.”
“To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.”
Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
“To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.”
Source: The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories
“To Andrei, he could see all that was unpleasant about her face—her large nose and bony frame. But inside her, there was so much peace and contentment that somehow, she lit up everywhere. She was beautiful to him. It was the kind of attraction between people who were really people—and who could see the other person’s aura and makings. He saw what made her flesh move, and not her flesh. The intricate mechanics of her person, and not her shell. Andrei looked at O’Hare and saw something genderless—a kind of organism that was born and that over time has been affected and affects—that was ultimately kind and brave. It was the highest rank of physical desire one could experience. When the beautiful made standard love to each other, there always lay at least one angle of ugly—maybe in the dark, from the side, with a sound they made, or everything once one was finished. In what O’Hare and Andrei shared, beauty could take its time and no second could stop it. It was the type of wholesome love that made a couple stare for minutes at the other, not because they adored their lover’s eye color, but because in those minutes they were speaking to the person within the person, finding them, seeing them see, and playing together in that invisible planet created by two intuitive inventors.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.”
Source: The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4
“To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.”
“To: Anna Oliphant
From: Étienne St. Clair
Subject: So . . .
Does that mean I can call you now?”
Source: Anna and the French Kiss
“To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.”
“To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”
Source: 1914-1919
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
“To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.”
“To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!”
Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child
“To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you.”
“To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best, which might have been imagined; but that the plan upon the whole is bad and pernicious.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.”
“To answer your question as honestly as I can, I've wanted since I was very little to not have to worry about money. I've never been poverty-level poor (I mean, there's been years where I've been officially beneath the poverty line, but that wasn't poverty: that was being a student and living the Student Lifestyle), but I've been in a place where you know you can't afford a better-quality food, where you can't do certain things because of money, and I'd prefer not to have those problems if I can. I sort of have troubles with money in general, with how it determines so much of our lives but with how we all try to ignore it, but I would like to be (and stay) in a place where I can pick up some new comics and games and not worry about how much they cost.
This is terrible; you're asking me where I want to be in the future, what I want my life to be like, and the only thing I can tell you is "Man, all I know is I don't want to be POOR.”
“To answer your question, you want me because I'm made of awesome.”
Source: After Dark: The Darkest Angel\Shadow Hunter
“To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.”
“To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.”
“To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.”
Source: Newton: Philosophical Writings