T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.”
“To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.”
“To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.”
“To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.”
“To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.”
Source: The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle
“To be motherly is a totally different phenomenon. It is something absolutely human; it transcends animality. It has nothing to do with biology. It is love, pure love, unconditional love. When a mother loves unconditionally - and only a mother can love unconditionally - the child learns the joy of unconditional love. The child becomes capable of loving unconditionally. And to be able to love unconditionally is to be religious. And it is the easiest thing for a woman to do. It is easy for her because naturally she is ready for it.”
“To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time--they need to be able to picture themselves in the future.... If they can't, then they're simply reacting to daily events, responding to the needs of the moment--for pleasure, for affiliation, for acceptance.”
“To be moved confuses the soul. One cannot convey these kinds of memories any more than the events of a dream...
...if I have complained too long, it is because my memory, no longer having any fixed abode, has to carry its luggage with it.”
Source: The Difficulty of Being
“To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can one be moved with compassion and not know tears? Jeremiah was a sobbing saint. Jesus wept! So did Paul. So did John. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign.”
“To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.”
Source: You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies
“To be mundane and poor is the curse of life!”
“To be my man, you have to put up with a lot. I toot under the sheets, I spend a lot of money and I can belch the ABCs.”
“To be my own god is to spend my life pretending that I am what I am not. But how do I pretend that such pretending isn’t destroying my life?”
“To be myself, to follow my desires to the best of my abilities. That’s the only end worth shooting for. Success and failure lie beyond us, they may be signposts that direct us, but they are foolish goals in themselves. To truly be who I have been made to be, made myself to be, ah, that is the only mission worthy of all the life that flows within.”
Source: Seven Stones
“To be naive is to be unaware of how stupid and cruel other people are; but, by some definitions, ignorance is nearly the opposite of naivety in being a kind of cynicism, in being unaware of their intelligence and humanity. It seems to be a normal although unfortunate case that the great many of us consciously abhor ignorance in others yet subconsciously practice it ourselves: as naivety is apparent and well-known to inflict its damage upon oneself; whereas the alternative and the easier, ignorance, its damage upon others.”
Source: Healology
“To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. ( The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display.
To be naked is to be without disguise.
To be on display is to have the surface of one's own skin, the hairs of one's own body, turned into a disguise which, in that situation, can never be discarded. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.”
Source: Ways of Seeing
“To be naked is to be oneself.”
“To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.”
“To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.”
“To be naked or even making love in a scene to me is very important if this is a movie about a couple or sensuality. It's a sort of moralism to think that this shouldn't be seen in the film.”
“To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.”
“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.”
“To be nervous is to lose half the battle; to be nervous is to burn mental energy to no useful purpose.”
“To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill your conscience.”
“To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.”
Source: Blood of Elves
“To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.”
Source: The words of Desmond Tutu
“To be next to her was to have everything.”
“To be next to someone is no big deal. To be in someone's heart is!”
“To be nice to people and make them happy - that's my philosophy in life.”
“To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.”
Source: John Donne: Selected Letters
“To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.”
“To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.”
Source: Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)
“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
“to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
“To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
“To be nonpartisan doesn't mean we're nonpolitical.”
“To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.”
“To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.”
“To be not a man, but the projection of another man's dream- what incomparable humiliation, what vertigo!”
Source: The Circular Ruins
“To be not loved is way better than to be loved unequally”
Source: The Other Side of it
“To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?”
“To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?' asks a dog in a novel I read once (Virginia Woolf Flush 87). I wonder what the smell of nothing is. Smell of autopsy.”
Source: Nox
“To be noticed in front of a very bright light, you must either be a much brighter light or a dark shadow!”
“To be nourished means to be brimful, satisfied and to treat our bodies with loving-kindness. Nourishment is the opposite of policing and gatekeeping. Nourishment rejects any attempt to blame us for our bodies, to shame us for what we look like or the food we eat. Nourishment rejects dieting. Nourishment is a feminist project because for too long, women’s bodies and what they consume have been monitored.”
Source: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
“To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!”
Source: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.”
Source: Reflections