T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.”
“To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.”
“To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.”
“To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be it's really, you know, still fascinating for me.”
“To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.”
“To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.”
“To be able to work with someone who you learn so much from is a really valuable experience.”
“To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.”
“To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become”
“To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends.”
“To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.”
“To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.”
“To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.”
Source: Meditations
“To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.”
“To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.”
Source: Killosophy
“To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write.
And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.”
Source: Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author
“To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.”
“To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity.”
“To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.”
“To be active in a church social life or church activities or even a church mission to help the hungry or reach the poor, but really our dedication has to be born out of an infatuation with Jesus.”
“To be active is the primary vocation of man.”
Source: The Wisdom of Goethe
“To be actively involved in human welfare is not politics, it's humanity.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop.”
Source: The Encyclicals of John Paul II
“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.”
Source: The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
“To be adored is something I recommend.”
“To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.”
“To be adult is to be alone.”
“To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi.”
“To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.”
“To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.”
“To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.”
“To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.”
Source: Power Through Constructive Thinking
“To be afraid of Mondays is to be a slave every Monday.”
“To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.”
“To be afraid you must have something you cannot bear to lose.”
Source: Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
“To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.”
Source: Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays
“To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.”
“To be agreeable, all that is necessary is to take an interest in other persons and in other things, to recognize that other people as a rule are much like one's self, and thankfully to admit that diversity is a glorious feature of life.”
“To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.”
Source: The Katherine Mansfield notebooks
“To be alive and try to be a decent person, and not turn into anything big or grand, that's the hardest thing of all. You think being president is hard? Ha. Don't you see that every president becomes a millionaire after he leaves office? If you can be nobody, and stand on your own two feet for as long as I have, that's enough. Look at my girl, all that talent and for what, just to drown in Bud Light?" [...] "People don't know what's enough, Labas. That's their problem. They think they suffer, but they're really just bored. They don't eat enough carrots.”
Source: The Emperor of Gladness
“To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.”
“To be alive at all is to have scars.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.”
Source: Coming Back to Life: The Guide to the Work that Reconnects
“To be alive is a divine gift. And the more you gratefully unwrap your unique package and intentionally express the best of who you are, the less energy you have to waste on trying to impress or outdo others.”
“To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.”
Source: A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography
“To be alive is lonely.”
Source: Discovery
“To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here.”
“To be alive is to
be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.”
Source: Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions