T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.”
“To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
[Lat., Simul flare sorbereque haud facile
Est: ego hic esse et illic simul, haud potui.]”
“To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers.
[Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]”
“To blow the whistle or not to blow the whistle, that is the question.”
“To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.”
“To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.”
“To boldly go where no one has gone before”
Source: George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
“To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?”
Source: Accelerando
“To boldly grow where no one has groan before.”
“To boldly split infinitives that no man had split before.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.”
“To book your next dream, read before bed...”
“To boost bonding among others so they are more apt to work (or play) well together, ask them, when together, to do two powerfully simple things that can be done rather quickly:
1. Write down the ways they are like each other. Hint: Create a level playing field. Writing rather than immediately sharing helps slow thinkers keep up with fast thinkers. Fast thinkers aren't smarter, just different in their thinking processes, and each kind has advantages and pitfalls, so they can accomplish more together than when a majority in a group think and speak at the same speed. Hint: Salespeople are often fast thinkers.
2. Share with each other what they wrote, going around the circle, one by one.
Bonus benefit: Other studies show that when you reflect on how you are similar to those with whom you are talking, you pay more attention to them. You care about them more. That spurs the other person to listen more closely to you.”
Source: Mutuality Matters More Living a Happy, Meaningful and Satisfying Life With Others
“To borrow a metaphor from the kitchen sink… Children form strong opinions easily. They soak up information from their parents, school, and the media, and repeat it back to the world. So when you don’t look or act like what everyone has been told is the norm, you get proverbially barfed on a lot.”
Source: Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir
“To borrow a phrase from my friend Erskine Bowles on the Fiscal Commission, we are the healthiest looking horse in the glue factory. That means America is still a step ahead of the European nations who are confronting a debt crisis, of Japan that's in its second lost decade.”
“To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.”
“To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away with it, you take a little more and a little more until there is no more to draw on. Oddly, your hands should be full with all that taking but when you open them there’s nothing there.”
Source: Written On The Body
“To borrow from Mark Twain, I tend to think that reports of the death of supervaluationist approaches have been greatly exaggerated. The arguments that have been given against supervaluationism usually aim to show that it is just incoherent. But it's not. It may be false, as a general theory of vagueness, but it's a coherent and, I think, even correct way to think about some vagueness.”
“To borrow Julia Creet's phrase, maybe "memory is where we have arrived rather than where we have left." ... I used to think I was a transcriber of my own experiences and memories, adding an image here and there, but now I think I am more of a shaper. I take small fragments of image, memory, silence, and thought, and shape them with imagninary hands into something different.”
Source: Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
“To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.”
Source: Nathan the Wise: A Dramatic Poem
“To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.”
Source: Damned
“To both of them I insist: STOP INCITING HATE BEFORE YOU GET PEOPLE KILLED!!!!!”
“To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life of the child grows out of the life of the parent or as a plant grows out of the soil, but a time and state of consciousness to be left behind, to cut oneself off from ... The child may be joyous, the man must be sober and self-denying; the child may be free, the man is to be "responsible"; the child may be candid in his feelings, the man must be polite, restrained, mindful of the demands of convention; the child may be playful, the man must be industrious. I am not necessarily objecting to the manly virtues, but I am objecting that they should be so exclusively assigned to grownups, and that grownups should be so exclusively restricted to them. A man may have all the prescribed adult virtues and, if he lacks the childhood virtues, still be a dunce and a bore and a liar.”
Source: The Hidden Wound
“To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.”
Source: The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)
“To bow like sheep or bend like goat, is sign of neither sanctity nor awakening.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.”
Source: After The Ecstasy, The Laundry
“To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.”
“To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.”
“To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.”
“To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.”
“To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.”
“To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.”
“To break another's bones, to take their life, is to forgo wonder: It is to cut off a part of ourselves that we do not yet know. I choose nonviolence because it is moral and strategic.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.”
“To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.”
“To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep--how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.”
Source: Schoolgirl
“To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.”
“To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.”
Source: World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender
“To break the chains of underachievement, we must recognize the diverse factors at play, from the pressure to deliver to the scars of put-downs, and work collectively to create environments that empower people rather than hinder them.”
“To break the pentameter, that was the first heave”
Source: The Cantos of Ezra Pound
“To break the power of the big corporations, we would propose that the biggest 500 corporations that dominate the rigged economy and political system should be taken into public ownership, and run democratically.”
“To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence.”
Source: Hiding Out
“To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“To break training without permission is an act of treason.”
“To break up with a girl: be direct. You have to behave the way you would want her to behave, and I would want the door to be closed. You have to be sensitive but honest. You have to be a gentleman and do it in person. You have to look her in the eyes.”
“To break with ritual is to break with faith, brother...”
Source: Stormseeker
“To break yourself loose from the dominion, ruler-ship and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“To break yourself loose from the dominion, rulership and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).”
“To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it.”
“To breathe air, to sight a beautiful day, to hear a bird... those are marvellous things and its unfortunate we as humans never feel satisified nor let it be enough.”