T Quotes
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“To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.”
“To be fair and straight give us the power to be proud of ourselves in the mirror.”
“To be fair, any condemnation of the worst parts of human nature is going to read as a veiled criticism of Trump”
“To be fair, her expected hatred of all things male has not materialised because it is clear that she simply dislikes everyone. I suspect that this is an attempt to remain aloof from the minions but it has backfired badly. The women, who were looking upon her as a potential saviour, now regard her as a traitor to her sex.
The blokes are just relieved.”
Source: Billy's Log. The Hilarious Diary of One Man's Struggle With Life, Lager and the Female Race
“To be fair, I don't quite see any difference between an assassin and a knight. They both kill people, only one "in the name of Honour '' and the other is just a "monster". One is killing publicly and people cherish him, and the other secretly and people hate him.”
“To be fair, I hate the N-word and avoid using it because the N-word has always been a pejorative, a word designed to remind black people of their place, a word to reinforce a perception of inferiority. I have no interest in using the word to describe myself or any person of color, under any circumstance. There is no reclamation to be had.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“To be fair, I thought he couldn’t make me pregnant if it was interspecies sex.”
“A Great Dane can still make a Chihuahua pregnant,” Liz points out. “Guess which one you are.”
Source: Ice Planet Barbarians
“To be fair, no one yet had complained of the dinner. Since the uncommon hour made it too late for breakfast and still a few hours too early for dinner, it had been a scramble for Violet to make them a meal on short notice. She'd curdled some cream with sweet wine and a grating of cinnamon, serving it warm to the table, and thickened the porridge of Indian meal they had eaten at breakfast and fried it in cakes drizzled thick with molasses, brought pickle and cheese from the cellar and rounded it off with two pies of the first apples picked from their orchard, still fresh from her baking of yesterday.”
Source: Bellewether
“To be fair to Monica," I said, "what you did to her wasn't very nice either." "What'd I do to her?" he asked, defensive. "You know, going blind and everything." "But that's not my fault," Isaac said. "I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute.”
“To be fair to Pete, I had just come off a very difficult owner relationship with my then head coach and I was looking for a different style. So I didn't give Pete all the power he should have had. I don't think there's any exact formula for how it's done. It's really what fits each individual system.”
“To be fair, we had this conversation when he and I were fourteen. Long before you enlightened us on the error of our anti-feminist tendencies. Still, it's a promise I've always taken seriously. Especially since, at the time, I did see you as a little sister. Obviously, things have changed since them.”
Source: His Until Midnight
“To be fair, I don't have a lot of clothes and you know, Einstein had the same outfit, five different times because he didn't want to spend energy trying to decide what to wear every day. It's pointless. I have a shirt that I wear when I'm not on stage and then I have a sweaty shirt that is so disgusting it would blow your mind.”
“To be fair, if we are having a mass extinction, we're in the early stages of it. I think it's knowing facts like that which has made me less fearful about the future. Mass extinction is a long, complicated process that we are just now beginning to understand - and likewise, we are just beginning to understand how we might prevent one.”
“To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.”
“To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries”
Source: The God Delusion
“To be fair, on a good project, no matter whether it's improvised or scripted or meticulously prepared, or all up for grabs, it's always, always beyond the safety zone. Every project becomes interesting and exciting once you move beyond that routine. You always aspire to that. It's not that this improvisational mode is the only mode that facilitates that.”
“To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.”
“To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film [ "Josie and the Pussycats" ], and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.”
“To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb”
“To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.”
Source: Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry
“To be faithless is to be powerless.
To be powerful, exercise your faith.”
“To be famous and broke is hard.”
“To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.”
Source: The Journals of Spalding Gray
“To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.”
“To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.”
Source: Works
“To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.”
“To be feared is much safer then to be loved.”
“To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.”
“To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.”
Source: Kidnapped
“To be fearful about tomorrow is to lose your peace and joy.”
“To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.”
“To be fearless is to be reckless. I think you need a certain level of fear because you need to respect the danger and the minute you stop sensing fear, that's the minute you stop respecting the danger, and that's when things can happen. Obviously, you can't panic. It can't be overwhelming. It can't be paralyzing. You always need to have that pit in your stomach. You always need to have that awareness about you.”
“To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.”
“To be fearless, you must simply fear less.”
“To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.”
“To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.”
“To be filled with bliss and harmony on earth is a reflection of heaven order”
“To be filled with fear is to open to the wrong way”
“To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.”
“To be filled with such music, yet be unable to play. She was not unfamiliar with what that could do to a soul.”
Source: Light from Uncommon Stars
“To be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit and to be directed by the Holy Spirit are the most important requirements for serving God”
“To be financially free
you need a system
A system where by
you will make money
while sleeping or at rest”
“To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.”
“To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games.”
“To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.”
“To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.”
Source: Eyes, etc: a memoir
“To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly.”
“To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.”
Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd
“To be fluent in a language you never wanted to learn is its own kind of grief.”
Source: Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood