T Quotes
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“To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.”
“To be curious means to discover the darkness because only the curious have the courage to enter the shady and dangerous zones of life!”
“To be cut off, to be left solitary; to have a world alien, not your world; all a hostile camp for you; not a home at all of hearts and faces who are yours, whose you are! It is the frightfullest enchantment; too truly a work of the Evil One. To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you. Without father, without child, without brother. Man knows no sadder destiny.”
Source: Past and Present
“To be damned is to be banished from, or be deprived of living in the presence of the Father and the Son. Who will live with him? They [who] will come up and inherit the highest glory that is prepared for the faithful.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“To be decent, characterful and honest shows and proves the authentic ability, to lead the people.”
“To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.”
Source: The Quotable Newman: A Definitive Guide to His Central Thoughts and Ideas
“To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.”
Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence
“To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.”
Source: Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead
“To be deeply loved, means a willingness to cut yourself wide open, exposing your vulnerabilities... hopes, hurts, fears and flaws. Hiding behind the highlight reel of who you are, is the real you and that person is just as worthy of love. There is nothing more terrifying or fulfilling, than complete love, it's worth the risk... reach for it.”
“To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.”
“To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory.”
“To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.
- Jósef Piłsudski”
Source: Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero
“To be defeated by our fears means to be defeated by ourselves!”
“To be defeated is only a fable in which one may tell of oneself. I will try and I will try again, though never shall I call it failure. I am simply one step closer to thy truth.”
Source: The Tier of Eternal Grace: The Mirrors Shadow
“To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.”
“To be denied was like getting shut out of a Public Park.”
Source: Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.”
“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.”
“To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.”
Source: Retrospectives and Conclusions
“To be described is to be seduced. Shit. One turn of phrase. One thing noticed that she'd never noticed. It works always.”
“To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.”
Source: Quiver: a book of erotic tales
“To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.”
“To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.”
“To be desperate in your search for something is to get it”
“To be desperate is to care to a fatal extent”
“To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.”
“To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up... Your muscles trick you; they did me.”
“To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.”
“To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.”
“To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.”
“To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.”
Source: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
“To be dignified and respected,
one must not interfere in trivial matters,
one must not intrude into private issues!”
Source: It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase
“To be diligent means to be serious and devoted to the work of God”
“To be direct and honest is not safe.”
“To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.”
“To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.”
Source: Learning by Heart
“To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.”
“To be distracted by the agendas or opinions of others is to keep us at a distance from our dreams.”
“To be doable is to be overdoable.”
“To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.”
“To be dull is easy,
to be active requires
tremendous work.”
“To be dwelling long for a month to come took away precious days of my own. August was a month of mirth and laughter and fun and triumphs but a part of my mind believed September held something better for me. Life was full of surprises and merriments but little did it bring me any good. The sun rose with the same enthusiasm everyday and the people around me did the same. They rose with a dream to do something productive which would make their tomorrows better.”
Source: A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars
“To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.”
“To be eclectic one must agree with diversity and stamina”
“To be economical agriculture must be ecological.”
“To be effective as a liberation worker--that is, one who is committed to changing systems and institutions characterized by oppression to create greater equity and social justice--a crucial step is the development of a liberatory consciousness. A liberatory consciousness enables humans to live their lives in oppressive systems and institutions with awareness and intentionality, rather than on the basis of the socialization to which they have been subjected. A liberatory consciousness enables humans to maintain an awareness of the dynamics of oppression characterizing society without giving in to despair and hopelessness about that condition, to maintain an awareness of the role played by each individual in the maintenance of the system without blaming them for the roles they play, and at the same time practice intentionality about changing the systems of oppression. A liberatory consciousness enables humans to live "outside" the patterns of thought and behavior learned through the socialization process that helps to perpetuate oppressive systems.”
Source: There at the Dawning: Memories of a Lesbian Feminist
“To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.”
“To be effective in fulfilling your goals, you must break them down into little tasks and then spend most of your time working on the task in front of you, instead of being overwhelmed by the enormity of the big goal.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.”
“To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.”
Source: The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker