T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.”
“To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.”
“To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.”
Source: A Cynthia Ozick reader
“To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.”
“To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.”
Source: Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul
“To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.”
“To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.”
“To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.”
“To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.”
Source: Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864
“To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.”
Source: A Man Can Live ...
“To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.”
“To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“To be ashamed of being poor, you need, not only poverty, but also stupidity.”
“To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity]. There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, "The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam," you'd say, "Okay, that's kind of conceivable." If you're talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.”
“To be associated with a film that just flat-out makes people happy is such a blessing and a tremendous privilege, and I'll always be grateful for it. People's eyes light up when they talk about it. I've been in Asia, Africa, Europe and even Bhutan; people know the movie there. It's just an amazing thing.”
“To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.”
“To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.”
“To be at ease is better than to be at business.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.”
“To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.”
Source: The Laws of Plato
“To be at one with God is to be at peace. The child simplicity is the greatest agency in bringing this full and complete realization, the child simplicity that recognizes its true relations with the Father's life. There are people I know who have come into such a conscious realization of their oneness with this Infinite Life, this Spirit of Infinite Peace, that their lives are fairly bubbling over with joy.”
Source: In Tune with the Infinite
“To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.”
Source: Will Warburton
“To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.”
“To be at peace with others you must be at peace with yourself.”
“To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.”
“To be at peace with the world, you must first find peace in yourself.”
“To be at table means that one has removed oneself from business and motion and made a commitment to spend some time over one's meal. One commits oneself not only to time but also to an implicit plan of eating: We sit to eat and not just to feed, and to do so both according to a plan and with others. A decision to have a sit-down meal must precede its preparation, and the preparation is in turn guided by the particular plan that is the menu. Further, to be at table means, whether we know it or not, to make a commitment to form and formality. We agree, tacitly to be sure, to a code of conduct that does not apply when we privately raid the refrigerator or eat on the run or in our cards, or even when we munch sandwiches in front of the television with our buddies who have gathered to watch the Super Bowl. There we eat (or, more accurately, feed) side by side, as at a trough; in contrast, at table we all face not our food but one another. Thus we silently acknowledge our mutual commitment to share not only some food but also commensurate forms of commensal behavior. To be sure, the forms will vary depending on the occasion; the guests, a banquet table at a testimonial dinner, and a picnic table in the park have different degrees and (in part) different kinds of formality, as do also the family breakfast and the family dinner. But in all cases there are forms that operate, regulate, and inform our behavior and that signify our peculiarly human way of meeting necessity.”
Source: The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
“To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.”
“To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.”
“To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“To be attracted to another man in a violent place seems akin to a ticking bomb, logging, strip-mining, fracking. The American West is the playground for the country’s obsession with exploitation and destruction, with most extractive economies near Native American reservations. There are increased rates of birth defects. Higher rates of cancer. Violent people who mimic the violence done to the land. BOOM. And where there’s danger, there’s room for trespassing. And where there’s trespassing, there’s room for mischief.”
Source: Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
“To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.”
“To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.”
Source: The Essential Bennis
“To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.”
“To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not.”
“To be authentic literally means to be your own author.”
“To be authentically human is to hold within your conscious experience joy, abundance, peace, love, fulfillment, and to live in the flow and momentum of the world around you. This is your birthright.”
Source: You Are Enough: Revealing the Soul to Discover Your Power, Potential, and Possibility
“To be average is to be as near the bottom as the top.”
“To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.”
“To be awake and harmonious creates the possibility for ecstasy to happen. Ecstasy means the ultimate joy, inexpressible; no words are adequate to say anything about it. And when one has attained to ecstasy, when one has known the ultimate peak of joy, compassion comes as a consequence. When you have that joy, you like to share it; you cannot avoid sharing, sharing is inevitable.”
“To be awake is the refreshness of being.”
“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
Source: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
“To be awake, you must first be aware.”
“To be awaken is to be alive.”
“To be awakened is to be find the light digging the dust.....to open doors to that which lay in slumber..
To be awakened is to chase away the fright and welcome the hope....for it is the pathway to the joy of a new beginning...
To be awakened is to take your soul into the light... though the clouds are so thick...for godliness rains through the burst of sky....
To be awakened is to make peace with all that has left and all that remains...
To be awakened is to know loss and yet to be in a festival of colors......”
“To be awakened is to find the light digging the dust.....to open doors to that which lay in slumber..
To be awakened is to chase away the fright and welcome the hope....for it is the pathway to the joy of a new beginning...
To be awakened is to take your soul into the light... though the clouds are so thick...for godliness rains through the burst of sky....
To be awakened is to make peace with all that has left and all that remains...
To be awakened is to know loss and yet to be in a festival of colors....”
“To be awarded is to be seen, not just for what you did, but for how deeply you cared to do it well.”
“To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.”