T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.”
“To be a complete victim may be another source of power.”
Source: The Unicorn
“To be a comprehensively successful in modern time, you need to be a multitalented person, to be multitalented you ought to channelize your talents, and focus on one talent at a time.”
Source: Carve Your Life: Live a great life with carvism
“To be a conscientious human is real karma.”
“To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.”
“To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail."
-Rayner Unwin”
“To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.”
“To be a creatrix is to dedicate oneself to the cycle of creativity – to embodying soul, through impregnation, gestation, birth, nurturing and death in a way that is not really understood in our culture. It is to consciously engage directly with the forces of the Universe on a daily basis. The creatrix gestates her own content and births it out: her art is an expression of her inner world and a reflection of what she has sensed in the outer world. Through this sacred birthing she is transformed, as are those who witness the process or its products. In this sense the act of creative expression is a sacred act of communion for the community.”
Source: Creatrix: She Who Makes
“To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness starts disappearing.”
“To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.”
“To be a critical reader means for me: (1) to affirm the enduring power of the Bible in my culture and in my own life and yet (2) to remain open enough to dare to ask any question and to risk any critical judgement. Nothing less than both of these points, together, can suffice for me. I was a reader of the Bible before I was a critic of it, but I found becoming a critic to be liberating and satisfying, and therefore I judge criticism to be a high calling of inestimable value. Yet, I recognize the prior claim of the text and the preeminence of reading over criticism; accordingly, I see and occasionally am apprehended by moments in which the text wields its indubitable power. The critic's ego says this could be a taste of the cherished post-critical naivete; the reader's proper humility before the text says that a reader should not judge such things.”
“to be a Cubs fan is both a birthright and a curse.”
Source: Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from '80s Movies
“To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant.”
“To be a dad: Make peace with the fact that you will now be your partner's second favourite person in the world.”
“To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire to give advice. Knowing answers does not require stating them; there are times when offering answers is not helpful, as when a person is in the middle of their own learning process.”
“To be a devil isn't so bad; to be a devil that can still see beauty, still remember what it was like to be in the sight of the most holy, now that was an obscenity, and that was what I was.”
Source: The Innocent: A Myth
“To be a devout reader was to be an acolyte of solace.”
“To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.”
Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)
“To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“To be a disciple means forsaking everything to follow Jesus, unconditionally, putting our lives completely in His hands. When we say that we want to be His disciple, yet attach a list of conditions, Jesus refuses to accept our terms. His terms involve unconditional surrender.”
Source: Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished
“To be a disciple of Jesus is to make disciples of Jesus.”
“To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word.”
Source: Kitty and the Midnight Hour
“To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's a dog woman, not downtrodden, but powerful. To be bestial is good. It's physical. Eating, snarling, all activities to do with sensation are positive. To picture a woman as a dog is utterly believable.”
“To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.”
“To be a driver that can cross off one of those marquee events as a winner, that cements your legacy in motorsports, to be able to win the Daytona 500 is the ultimate dream of a race car driver.”
“To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we'll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher...and falling”
“To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.”
“To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.”
“To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!”
“To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.”
“To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness... Part of being a fan is to allow 360 degrees of experience - to immerse without judgment. It's like a really fearless step forward into new experience. There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.”
“To be a fan of The Vampire Diaries isn't just to like it. It isn't just to love it. It's to obsess over it. It's the kind of fandom that still, more than fifteen years after the series first premiered, attends conventions all over the globe just to get a glimpse of their favorite star or hear them talk about Mystic Falls. It's a fandom that certainly launched with the book series but became something entirely new when the show really took off.”
Source: I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries
“To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.”
“To be a father is not simply to bring a child into this world. It is to take care of that child and to give him direction and guidance. It's my mother who always did this for me. I'm surprised that today, because of the World Cup and because the cameras are on my father, that he puts on that jersey and speaks of his son. It's not going to change things because of a World Cup.”
“To be a father means above all to be at the service of life and growth”
Source: Joy to the World: How Christ's Coming Changed Everything
“To be a feminist is to be alive.”
“To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.”
“To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.”
“To be a fiction writer was to be a liar. But in small doses, in her imagination, in words on a page. Those lies didn't really exist when no one else read them but her.”
Source: The Greatest Lie of All
“To be a fighter, you have to be passionate. I have so much passion, it's hard to hold it all in. That passion escapes as tears from my eyes, sweat from my pores, blood from my veins.”
Source: My Fight / Your Fight
“To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather than worse. I write the film and I direct the film, I decide who's going to be in it, I decide on the editing, I put in the music from my own record collection.”
“To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.”
“To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success”
“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact.”
“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.”
“To be a follower of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, you have to completely extain from alcohol, or fornication, adultered, killin', stealin', lyin'. I would say that the people are not rejectin' the Honorable Elijah Mohammed because they don't believe what he teach.”
“To be a fool at the right time is also an art.”
“To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.”
“To be a '"free lord" in secret is better than being a public slave”
Source: Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy