T Quotes
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“To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.”
“To be a bathroom singer, one need not have an enthralling voice, need not sing in tune or have the right rhythm or beat. All it takes to qualify is to have a love for music and enthusiasm. It is not rare to come across bathroom singers in one's own family whose genuine efforts to sing a popular song could come across as braying to others as they are often loud, out of tune and out of breath. What we overlook in such situations is that they are connoisseurs of music. Fans of Bollywood and Hollywood films have no problems accepting actors and actresses, who in their roles of common men and women sing in the shower in perfect pitch, like a nightingale or a cuckoo.”
Source: I Am Audacious
“To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.”
Source: Practicing History: Selected Essays
“To be a better Human is to be less Hypocrite”
“To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.”
“To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.”
Source: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
“To be a birder is to fall in love. Obsessively, irrevocably and, perhaps, foolishly. This love, it creeps up on you. A wedge-tailed eagle slices through the sky. A magpie’s liquid song pierces the dawn. A snowy owl gazes unblinking across the tundra. So, here’s to the birdwatchers, those optimistic, slightly eccentric custodians of wonder and joy and passion and love. Because sometimes it is as simple as opening your eyes, stepping outside and looking upon the world around you.”
Source: Nature's Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction
“To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.”
“To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.”
“To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.”
“To be a book and carry the memories of all those you meet is to hold the universe inside......”
“To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.”
Source: The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks
“To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.”
Source: Redburn's First Voyage: Works of Melville
“To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.”
“To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.”
Source: An Intimate History Of Humanity
“To be a Catholic writer is to stand at the center of the Western tradition in artistic terms.”
“To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.”
“To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.”
“To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself.”
“To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death.”
“To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.”
“To be a champion you must live like one.”
“To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.”
“To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.”
“To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.”
“To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.”
Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
“To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.”
Source: Prayer
“To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall”
Source: A Generous Orthodoxy: By celebrating strengths of many traditions in the church (and beyond), this book will seek to communicate a
“To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.”
“To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.”
“To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.”
“To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God.”
Source: Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
“To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.”
“To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.”
Source: Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
“To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.”
“To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.”
Source: Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
“To be a Christian, you can’t go with the flow. You have to go by the Word of God.”
“To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.”
“To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.”
Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt
“To be a classic, a novel should be original.”
“To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.”
“To be a co-laborer with God is to lift up one’s eyes to the harvest of souls that he sees”
“To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.”
Source: Comedy, American Style
“To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.”
“To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.”
“To be a comedian: Make peace with the fact that you will never be as funny as a baby falling over.”