T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.”
“To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy.”
“To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks
“To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.”
“To buy deare is not bounty.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“To buy excuses, a person must sell his dream.”
“TO BUY FISH IN THE DREAM, IS TO SELL NEPOTISM”
“To buy happiness is to sell soul.”
“To buy is to create. If you buy, then of course things will be created.”
“To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can use to attract attention, attract voters. And get influence in our society.”
“To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.”
“To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward.”
“To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.”
“To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.”
Source: Flipped
“To calculate sacrifice is to attempt to sacrifice safely, and safe sacrifice is one of the most outrageous oxymoron’s I can think of.”
“To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not have. In this talk I want to return to the old question of what it is that determines gauge couplings in general, and try to prepare the ground for a future realistic calculation.”
Source: Shelter Island II: Proceedings of the 1983 Shelter Island Conference on Quantum Field Theory and the Fundamental Problems of Physics
“To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.”
“To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.”
Source: What We Believe: Understanding and Confessing the Apostles' Creed
“To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.”
“To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.”
Source: Pensées
“To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.”
“To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.”
“To call a people ‘barbaric’ is, in one sense, to describe the state of their soul, condemning their mentality or philosophy as godless. It may have nothing at all to do with superficial material conditions. A rich man can be a barbarian as easily as anyone else.”
Source: This Dark Age - 2024 Edition - Volume 1: Introduction to the Modern World
“To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built.”
Source: Word and Object
“To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.”
Source: Human, All Too Human
“To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of bad art that we do not condemn as Kitsch. To condemn something as Kitsch is to condemn it on moral grounds.”
Source: Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or
“To call any music subversive, to say that a set of pitches and rhythms could pose a threat to real power . . . ludicrous. And yet, from Plato to Pyongyang, that endless need to legislate sounds. To police the harmonic possibilities as if there were no limits to music’s threat.”
Source: Orfeo
“To call certain people, such as your boss, teachers, professors, doctors, your parent’s friends, etc. by their first names might be considered disrespectful. It is best to err on the side of caution until you know what is appropriate.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.”
“To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.”
Source: Marc Chagall, sculpture, ceramics, etchings for the fables of La Fontaine
“To call genocide as self-defense, may be textbook diplomacy. Killing innocents to keep control, is an act of terrorist hypocrisy.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.”
Source: The world is square
“To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.”
Source: The Middle Parts of Fortune Somme and Ancre
“To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006
“To call Keegan a superstar is stretching a point.”
“To call me a partisan hack is ludicrous. [...] I am the least partisan person I know.”
“To call me a woman is very nice.”
“To call me in, I'm thinking I don't own a suit, a ring, a watch, a cellphone. I'm dragging up out of the woods here. You boys must be hard up these days.”
“To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.”
Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an academic but a militant. He is well aware that it is up to him to change the world - no more, no less. History throws him on the brink. Everywhere the hour of the socialist revolution has sounded. Revolution - like landing on the moon - has entered the realm of the immediate and possible. Precise definition of the forms of a socialist society is no longer a utopian scheme. The only utopians are those who close their eyes to these realities.”
“To call oneself a politician and in the same breath to declare that one is an American appears to be the notion of the soul deluded by the muse of their own rhetoric.”
“To call others evil is simpler and more emotionally satisfying than dealing with them as equal human beings that just disagree. That is why some do it so often.”
“To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told me there was a reall truth therein: for first wee are a rude masse, and in the ranke of creatures, which only are, and have a dull kinde of being not yet priviledged with life, or preferred to sense or reason; next we live the life of plants, the life of animals, the life of men, and at last the life of spirits, running on in one mysterious nature those five kinds of existence, which comprehend the creatures not onely of world, but of the Universe.”
“To call ourselves historical beings is to say that we are constitutively capable of self-transcendence, becoming at one with ourselves only in death.”
Source: Materialism
“To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen.”
Source: Complete Essays
“To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.”
“To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.”
Source: War Talk
“To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.”
Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
“To call someone a navel gazer on the mainland is to say that they're narcissistic, self-absorbed in their introspective pursuits. This perspective, I realize, might be the very reason I've come to think of a spiritual life as some sort of luxury. I'm suddenly struck by the irony of a culture that seems to point to personal spiritual quests as somehow selfish when, in the end, those journeys, like the discredited belly button, are ultimately a search for connectivity.”
“To call someone anti-American, indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie, you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good, you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.”
Source: War Talk