T Quotes
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“To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die.”
“To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?”
“To be born as a human being is a rare thing, something to be grateful for. But being born as a human being is worthless if you spend your whole life in a mental hospital. It is worthless if you worry about not having money. It is worthless if you become neurotic because you cannot get a prestigious job. It is worthless if you weep because you lose your girlfriend.”
“To be born free is the greatest splendour of man, making the humble hermit superior to kings and even to the gods, who are self-sufficient by their power but not by their contempt of it.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no history, have never done anything that is worthy of human respect destroys you because in the beginning you believe it.”
“To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.”
“To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.”
“To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.”
“To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“To be born is to know suffering. To know pain. To know fear. To know deep yearning that can never be satisfied.”
Source: The Little Light
“To be born is to start the journey towards death.”
“To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.”
Source: Starting Point 1979-1996
“To be born of a mother is to owe a debt no time can repay.”
“To be born of chaos means to be born a lone wanderer in this world full of those who would gladly be food for a corrupted force. It means to walk alone amongst the blind, to be a lone wolf amongst sheep...that wishes to devour the 'Sheppard' who keeps all in line.”
Source: The Book of Smokeless Fire
“To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime”
“To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.”
Source: Notebooks
“To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years of age you probably don't have it and you will be able to paint what you want to paint.”
“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”
“To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea... from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure.”
“To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.”
“To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.”
Source: Harvest song: collected essays and stories
“To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.”
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
“To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.”
“To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.”
Source: Under dispute
“To be brave is to accept fear but to refuse to bow to it.”
“To be brave is to be alive in such a way that the world knows you are afraid, but you love more than you fear, and your success is the ultimate outcome.”
Source: Beacon of the Dark Night: Shining Hope Through the Shadows
“To be brave is to forsake all others to be true to yourself.”
Source: Untamed
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”
“To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.”
“To be brave is to not turn away. To be brave is to go forward. To be brave is to love.”
Source: The Beatryce Prophecy
“To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.”
“To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.”
Source: Pompeii
“To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.”
Source: The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
“To be broken means to be fixable, to be in despair means to be capable of love.”
Source: Things We Forgot
“To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in the abstract. I had become acutely aware of people around me who appears to have the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but as long as they didn't identify with me, I was in no rush to identify with them. My situation allowed, if not complete denial, at least a thick padding of insulation.”
“To be brutally honest, I am a little bit of a Clint Eastwood nerd. Clint Eastwood who was the man who drew me into movies. When everybody else was watching Star Wars, I was watching Fistful of Dollars.”
“To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.”
“To be brutally truthful, the removal of your noodle from seeking other people’s futile approval to be you, is one of the most beautiful steps to flight, where wings flap to freedom from so many deadly traps.”
“To be busy is man's only happiness.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)
“To be called a child of God - there is no greater distinction. I love the final sentence of that Scripture with that emphatic exclamation mark. What a powerful assurance. Right here, right now, in this very moment, no matter how good or bad you feel about yourself, you're a beloved child of God. Throughout Scripture, God is conveying this message. He made you, he loves you, he pursues you, he's not done with you, and he's called you his child.”
“To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair”
“To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.”
“To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting.
Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.”
“To be called beautiful was a novelty in his experience.”
Source: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
“To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.”
“To be called is to be drawn by something outside yourself, something bigger than yourself.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions