T Quotes
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“To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.”
“To be calm when you've found something going on”
“To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.”
“To be candid, things hadn’t been good in our house since I’d turned thirteen and, as Mom put it, lost my mind overnight. Which meant I’d changed from an obedient child who never gave anyone a second’s trouble into an obnoxious teenager who left wet towels on the bathroom floor and dirty dishes in front of the television, played loud music and argued about everything from politics to curfews.”
Source: Look for Me by Moonlight
“To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.”
“To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.”
Source: Middlemarch
“To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.”
“To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.”
Source: Some of the
“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics
“To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.”
Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Life's Complex Journey
“To be carnally minded is to be spiritually dead”
“To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us.”
“To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.”
“To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.”
“To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.”
Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“To be chalant is to care. It is to care so much, so fiercely, and so recklessly that it makes you look like a goddamn fool. And let’s be honest, nobody wants to look like a fool anymore. That’s the root of this whole 'nonchalant' sickness. It is pure, unadulterated fear.”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.”
“To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.”
“To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.”
“To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.”
“To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.”
“To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal. To be of choice is to enter the world: the dream world, the divided world, the false, the pseudo, the illusory world.”
“to be choked with hate
May well be of all evil chances chief.”
Source: Later Poems
“To be chosen as the Beloved of God is something radically different. Instead of excluding others, it includes others. Instead of rejecting others as less valuable, it accepts others in their own uniqueness. It is not a competitive, but a compassionate choice. Our minds have great difficulty in coming to grips with such a reality. Maybe our minds will never understand it. Perhaps it is only our hearts that can accomplish this. Every time we hear about 'chosen people', 'chosen talents', or 'chosen friends', we almost automatically start thinking about elites and find ourselves not far from feelings of jealousy, anger, or resentment. Not seldom has the perception of others as being chosen led to aggression, violence, and war.”
Source: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
“To be chosen for herself—it was the secret desire of her heart. To be important to someone. More than a glorified servant who fetched and carried and entertained at her aunt’s whim. To be wanted truly for herself. Seen instead of invisible. Valued instead of tolerated.”
Source: In Honor's Defense
“To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life.”
Source: To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
“To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!”
Source: Black Theology and Black Power
“To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.”
Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS
“To be Christian means to find the decisive revelation of God in Jesus. To be Muslim means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Koran. To be Jewish means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Torah, and so forth.”
“To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.”
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion
“to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.”
Source: Americans and Others
“To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.”
“To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.”
“To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.”
“To be clear, she always admired hard workers: she just didn't see the point of laboring to benefit someone else. "If you're going to work hard," she used to say, "you might as well work hard for yourself.”
Source: The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
“To be clear, the sun suddenly vanishing from the sky was not my fault.”
Source: To Swallow the Sun
“To be clear to the scriptures is to be clear to the original plan of creation”
“To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization, taking down that power structure, does not mean the end of all social order. It should ultimately mean more justice, more local control, more democracy, and more human rights, not less.”
“To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.”
“To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.”
“To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary "surfing" and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.”
“To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.”
“To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.”
“To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”
“To be clear... no one is above the law.”
“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
“To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.”
Source: Reginald