T Quotes
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“To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.”
“To be perfectly honest, Christ Pratt is one of the greatest human beings I've ever met in my entire life. He really is. Everything about him was my favourite thing. I also really love how tall he is, 'cuz I'm kind of a tall girl and often times when I'm doing a movie I need to slouch, but I could stand tall and proud next to Chris Pratt.”
“To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.”
“To be perfectly honest, I like pressure. It's something I find exciting. And I am the kind of personality that gets very bored very easily. The work I try and involve myself with is ordinarily determined by how much it sort of frightens me.”
“To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.”
“To be perfectly honest, I was never really aware that I had any special abilities. When you have what you have, you don't really think about what you don't have; you simply work with what you have.”
“To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.”
“To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.”
Source: The Guardian
“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”
“To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.”
Source: The Works of Jeremy Taylor
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.”
“To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!”
“To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.”
Source: Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment
“To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast”
“To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful… everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for unlimited possibility.”
“To be pleasant, gentle, calm and self-possessed: this is the basis of good taste and charm in a woman. No matter how amorous or passionate you may be, as long as you are straightforward and refrain from causing others embarrassment, no one will mind. But women who are too vain and act pretentiously, to the extent that they make others feel uncomfortable, will themselves become the object of attention; and once that happens, people will find fault with whatever they say or do; whether it be how they enter a room, how they sit down, how they stand up or how they take their leave. Those who end up contradicting themselves and those who disparage their companions are also carefully watched and listened to all the more. As long as you are free from such faults, people will surely refrain from listening to tittle-tattle and will want to show you sympathy, if only for the sake of politeness.
I am of the opinion that when you intentionally cause hurt to another, or indeed if you do ill through mere thoughtless behavior, you fully deserve to be censured in public. Some people are so good-natured that they can still care for those who despise them, but I myself find it very difficult. Did the Buddha himself in all his compassion ever preach that one should simply ignore those who slander the Three Treasures? How in this sullied world of ours can those who are hard done by be expected to reciprocate in kind?”
Source: The Diary of Lady Murasaki
“To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.”
“To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.”
“To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art. Art is the incarnation of the truth. It penetrates the surface of things to portray them as they really are.”
“To be poetic is how u get somebody as a girl around you...
"Dexter: You seem uncertain. It's uncomfortable, isn't it? Just when you think you've answered all the questions, another one smacks you in the face. Life, life, life. Life is just like that. Which is why I prefer death."
But in the end some people play well their role others can't play it.”
“To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they take off their smiles and soft words, and sit about, spiritually in their underwear. This isn't pretty.”
“To be political actually means to care about your community.”
“To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.”
“To be politically activated is to dare to care about the happiness of others and that is just about the most important activity anyone can be involved in at this time, because it changes a person - it lifts them from normal self-centeredness to a state of other centeredness. That is a good thing because it expands our perception of self. This expansion of consciousness leads to enlightenment, which is the meaning of yoga.”
“To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.”
“To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.”
Source: Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc
“To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.”
Source: The Work of Theology
“To be poor in spirit is an attitude of humility that is willing to turn from personal pursuits to seek God’s righteousness”
“To be poor in spirit is to recognize one’s need to receive help”
“To be "poor in the spirit" is to be willing to abandon anything that might get in the way of your finding God, including your current ways of thinking, viewing the world, and living”
“To be poor is to suffer. It's the kind of suffering that freezes the heart stone cold.”
Source: Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 104, May 2015
“To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.”
Source: Essays
“To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.”
“To be popular I must be mediocre.”
“To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.”
“To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.”
Source: A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography
“To be possessed by Jesus and to possess Him - that is the perfect reign of Love.”
“To be powerful, a kiss should make a journey, be its own story--begin with hesitation, move to realization, then melt into bliss.”
Source: The Actor and the Housewife
“To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.”
“To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.”
“To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.”
“To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.”
Source: PRACTICAL RELIGION
“To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.”
Source: Sorties
“To be precise, I’d say you’re in the village of Hamlin. To be realistic, I’d say you’re exactly where you need to be.”
Source: Child of Nod
“To be precise, there are three gems for healthy life: sufficient workouts, healthy food, and enough sleep.”
Source: Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
“To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.”
“To be prejudiced is always to be weak”
Source: The Pamphlet, Entitled,