T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.”
Source: Three Hundred Æsop's Fables
“To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.”
Source: The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
“To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to whom it is of no concern whether or not animals suffer will almost inevitably aid and abet the destruction of the decent old ideal of animal husbandry and, as a consequence, increase the suffering of animals. I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science.”
“To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.”
Source: What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies
“To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.”
Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“To be what is called happy, one should have (1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to die for.
The lack of one of these results in drama. The lack of two results in
tragedy.”
“To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.”
Source: Morning worship: and other poems
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
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 what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.”
“To be white in the Caribbean is to have money, power, and the freedom to do anything or nothing - it is, in many cases, to occupy the top rung of society.”
Source: Exploring Shadeism
“To be white, or straight, or male, or middle class is to be simultaneously ubiquitious and invisible. You’re everywhere you look, you’re the standard against which everyone else is measured. You’re like water, like air. People will tell you they went to see a “woman doctor” or they will say they went to see “the doctor.” People will tell you they have a “gay colleague” or they’ll tell you about a colleague. A white person will be happy to tell you about a “Black friend,” but when that same person simply mentions a “friend,” everyone will assume the person is white. Any college course that doesn’t have the word “woman” or “gay” or “minority” in its title is a course about men, heterosexuals, and white people. But we call those courses “literature,” “history” or “political science.”
This invisibility is political.”
Source: Privilege: A Reader
“To be who I am because of you. To be who he was because of me”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.”
“To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.”
Source: My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST
“To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.”
“To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.”
“To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.”
Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition): Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Master of Ballantrae, St Ives: Adventures of a French Prisoner in England…
“To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
“To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.”
“To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.”
“To be wild, to hear the heartbeat of nature, to feel the rush of adrenal strength, to drink from the fresh air and howl at the moon – these are things that are embedded into men.”
Source: Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity
“To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.”
Source: Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou
“To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.”
“To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering is one of the greatest of God's gifts, is almost to reach a mystical solution of the problem of evil.”
“To be wise and eke to love,
Is granted scarce to gods above.”
“To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.”
“To be wise is to be eternally curious.”
“To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!”
“To be wise means to know when to stay silent.”
“To be wise, not to be right.”
“To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised by the love of God. That will guarantee a good life.”
“To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.”
“To be wise: You take the knowledge you have gained and use it to script words together to benefit yourself and others.”
“To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.”
Source: Men and manners: sketches and essays
“To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.”
“To be with another in this [empathic] way means that for the time being, you lay aside your own views and values in order to enter another's world without prejudice. In some sense it means that you lay aside your self; this can only be done by persons who are secure enough in themselves that they know they will not get lost in what may turn out to be the strange or bizarre world of the other, and that they can comfortably return to their own world when they wish.
Perhaps this description makes clear that being empathic is a complex, demanding, and strong - yet subtle and gentle - way of being.”
Source: A Way of Being
“To be with another scientist and make a discovery and share that with a global audience, or working with bear biologists in Alaska, by helicopter - [it's] really what I've given my whole life to. And I get to do that just about every week.”
“To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.”
“To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.”
“To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.”
“To be with someone who's certain of me is like discovering a steady anchor in the unpredictable currents of existence, grounding me in the assurance of love's unwavering certainty.”
“to be with someone
who will let you breathe here.
and just be here.
and not ask anything else of you,
not to tangle in their weaknesses
or to heal their wounds…
they'll just want to know you…
and have you know them.
someone who just lets you
feel beautiful here
while you wonder of your
dreams together in the
glow of the moon.”
“To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?”
“To be with the right person cannot solve all your life's problem, on the other hand, being with the wrong one can create many.”
“To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury, nor should it be the sole possession of a privileged few. We are all created b'tzelem elohim - in the image of God - and this makes each human life as precious as the next. By 'pricing out' a portion of this country's population from health care coverage, we mock the image of God and destroy the vessels of God's work.”
“To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I.”
Source: Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel
“To be without method is deplorable, but to depend entirely on method is worse.”
“To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.”
Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri