T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be under a physical bondage or a mental bondage is one of the worst situations someone could ever be in life.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.”
“To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble”
“To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.”
“to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.”
“To be understood is to prostitute oneself”
Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)”
“To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.”
“To be united by hatred is a fragile alliance at best.”
“To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.”
Source: Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)
“To be united with Me in total dedication to My highest will protects the soul from forces of destruction. There is no safety in external circumstances. The only shield for the spirit of man is My presence. It is written, "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them."”
“To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.”
Source: Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
“To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“To be unloved, unseen, unheard is to remain unfelt for many are struggling in the thick of darkness. Just be love for it may be someone's answered prayers, somebody's lost light....”
“To be “unmanly” is, of course, within our gender binary system, to be feminine, and here lies the essence of gender socialization for males: they need, at all times, to distance themselves as much as possible from anything constructed by the culture as feminine. The feminine hence becomes feared—and that which we fear, we also learn to despise.”
Source: Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
“To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap.”
Source: How Not to Be Popular
“To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.”
“To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.”
Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women
“To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me.”
“To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.”
“To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.”
“To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.”
“To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.”
Source: The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ
“To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship.”
“To be useful is as necessary as to be successful.”
“To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be.”
“To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.”
“To be very fair, it was Ian Marsh and Martyn Ware who started The Human League. They brought Philip Oakey in to sing, primarily because Philip was very tall. So it started out as their vision. I don't think anyone ever thought it would be as big as it became. Music evolves and people were looking for something different. We came out at the right time and were just very lucky.”
“To be very gentle is to break inside yet come out stronger a little every day, to be very brave is to brave the battles in silence yet remain smiling to the world, to be powerful is to be powerless at first and then sense what power is when battling all alone..”
“To be very honest with you, there were two big factors: One was that we were initially coming out in that week before Thanksgiving where both Twilight 3D and Happy Feet 2 are coming out.”
“To be very honest, I cannot drape a saree myself. I have never draped one on my own, ever. But it has been done on me so many times, that now I have memorised all the steps, and if someone challenges me, I will surely be able to do it.”
“To be very sure in anything in life, always suspect and re-suspect, test and re-test; just like the gold burning process for its purity.”
“To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.”
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“To be victorious is to consistently walk in the light, no matter where you are and no matter who is around.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“To be vulnerable is a strength most of us fear”
“To be vulnerable is to heal yourself ... just as much as it is to heal others.”
“To be vulnerable to negative emotion is to lack a personal commitment to kingdom principles”
“To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.”
“To be weak is a dangerous thing.”
Source: Pandora
“To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.”
“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
“To be wealthy, powerful or famous does mot matter to me. Starting a social good ripple that will turn to an ocean wave matters to me.”
“To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.”
“To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.”
“To be weird! That is my goal!”
“To be well dressed is a little like being in love”
“To be well in your mind you have first to be free.”
Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold
“To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley