T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!”
“To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.”
“To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe they have the right to render another human being powerless. They are the weak. To yield and not break, that is incredible strength.”
“To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?”
“To be rescued rather painfully points out the fact that we don’t have the resources to rescue ourselves. Thanks to the stubbornness of our stale pride we choose to refuse rescue and embrace anguish, which means that the greatest thing that we need to be rescued from is ourselves.”
“To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.”
“To be resigned when ills betide,
Patient when favours are deni'd,
And pleas'd with favours given, -
Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part;
This is that incense of the heart
Whose fragrance smells to heaven.”
“To be respected as an actor it doesn't help to be seen out in the clubs.”
“to be respected be respecting”
“To be respected is not my concern. So long as I seek to live in obedience to my Lord, respect will come accordingly from the people He deems it necessary.”
Source: Healology
“To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.”
“To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.”
“To be restored to Christ is to know a fulfilled life”
“To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.”
“To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.”
“To be rich and talented at the same time is rare but possible, but the most talented; the genius, is the one crippled and bulldozed into oblivion by the scourge of poverty.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“To be rich be diligent; move on
Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth;
Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone;
And make the spring straight bury all her birth.
Rich are the diligent who can command
Time--nature's stock.”
“To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing”
Source: The World Beautiful: 1st-3d Ser
“To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.”
“To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.”
“To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.”
“To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.”
Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich”
“To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.”
Source: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself
“To be rid of our individuality, which is our will, which is our effort—to live effortless, a kind of conscious sleep—that is very beautiful, I think—that is our after-life-our immortality.”
Source: Sons and Lovers
“To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.”
Source: The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
“to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction?”
“To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.”
“To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.”
Source: Franz Kline, the Early Works as Signals: Exhibition University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York 14 March-18 April, 1977 and Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York 27 September - 6 November 1977
“To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.”
“To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.”
“To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.”
Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart
“To be right, be willing to admit you are wrong.”
“To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law of grace and love - but that one must do so. The first obligation of the Christian is to maintain their freedom from all superstitions, all blind taboos and religious formalities, indeed from all empty forms of legalism.”
Source: He is risen
“To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.”
“To be romantic is quite simply to allow yourself to fall in love with life - all of life - and experience it fully, openly, passionately, and purposefully”
“To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.”
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
“to be rubbed is to be polished.”
“To be rude is as good as being clever.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
“To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice before some utopia can be instituted.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.”
“To be sad is to lack a reflection of heaven’s order”
“To be sad or happy about something that time says now is the eternal disease of mankind! Something happened, don't be sad right away, wait; something happened, don't be happy right away, wait, wait for what time will say later, because what time will say when the time comes is more important than what time says now, because time can throw away its last word and completely change what it says now!”
“To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.”
“To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.”
“To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.”
Source: Conversations with Wendell Berry
“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”
“To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”)”
“To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.”