T Quotes
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“To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole,
But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)
“To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.”
Source: This Business of Living
“To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you are a sinking man. A writer's love for another writer is never quite free of malice. He may enjoy discussing your failures even more than you do. He probably sees you as tragic, like his characters - or unworthy of tragedy, which is worse.”
“To choose always the hardest.”
“To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.”
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.”
“To choose holiness is to reject sin.”
“To choose is also to begin.”
Source: Dreaming the Dark
“To choose joy does not mean to choose happy feelings or an artificial atmosphere of hilarity. But it does mean the determination to let whatever takes place bring us one step closer to the God of life.”
Source: The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey
“To choose life with God is to choose a blessed life.”
“To choose light is to reject darkness.”
“To choose love is to reject hate.”
“To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.”
“To choose not to be is still to be, for choice itself affirms existence.”
“To choose not to be part of a team or religion does not make me non-religious; for my religion is Truth and I am very much in love with God. I do not need to align myself with a specific messenger if I already understand God’s message. And the way I think is not considered ‘New Age’, since common sense is not new. So long as you act and speak with love and truth in you, and are good to your fellow man — in that you treat everybody as you would want yourself to be treated, your heart will stand by God regardless of the label you have assigned to your mind.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“To choose not to be part of a team or religion does not make me non-religious; for my religion is Truth and I am very much in love with God. I do not need to align myself with a specific messenger if I already understand God's message. And the way I think is not considered 'New Age', since common sense is not new. So long as you act and speak with love and truth in you, and are good to your fellow man -- in that you treat everybody as you would want yourself to be treated, your heart will stand by God regardless of the label you have assigned to your mind.
Someone once said to me, "With all the religions in the world, they can't all be right."
And I replied, "Well they can't all be wrong either.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“To choose not to choose is still a choice, because you have chosen not to choose.”
“To choose not to choose is still to act.”
“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing sweeter in the world. - J. V. Stalin”
Source: Archangel
“To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.”
“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.”
Source: Stalin's kampf: Joseph Stalin's credo
“To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder”
Source: Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger
“To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.”
“To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.”
“To choose the light or to choose other things is always the question.”
“To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.”
“To choose the right is to reject the wrong.”
“To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being
good for all.”
Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism
“To choose to be alone is to bait the trap, to create a space the demons cannot resist entering. And that's the good news; the demons that enter can be named, written about, and tamed through the miracle of the healing word, the miracle of art, the miracle of silence.”
Source: At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life
“To choose to be successful in futuristic terms is to give back more than we take. It is to create opportunities for others, regenerate ecosystems, spread love, enable opportunities and empower ourselves to live the great reset.”
Source: Cartography of Inner Worlds: A Journey to Deepen the Meaning of our Lives
“To Choose To Disobey God’s Command Is To Be Doomed To Live A Life Independently God”
“To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.”
Source: Dog Years: A Memoir
“To choose to write is to reject silence.”
“To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.”
“To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith”
Source: For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio
“To Christ we are to be always coming; upon Him always relying; to His precious blood always looking.”
“To: Christian Grey
Dear Completely & Utterly Smitten
I love waking up to you, too. But I love being in bed with you and in elevators and on pianos and billiard tables and boats and desks and showers and bathtubs and strange wooden crosses with shackels and four-poster beds with red satin sheets and boathouses and childhood bedrooms.”
“To: Christian Grey
You've made me cry again.
I love the iPad.
I love the songs.
I love the British Library App.
I love you.
Goodnight.
Ana xx”
Source: Fifty Shades Darker
“To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.”
“To cite Enzo Ferrari, we will always sell one less Ferrari than the market wants, that's a policy that will never change.”
“To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.”
“To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.”
Source: World Orders, Old and New
“To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numerous others, will say it for you.”
Source: Little Bird of Heaven
“To claim for socialism that it is a class war is to do it an injustice and indefinitely postpone its triumph. Socialism offers a platform broad enough for all to stand upon. It makes war upon a system, not upon a class.”
“To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.”
Source: The farthest shore
“To claim that every staircase goes up means that we’re probably living out our lives in the basement of denial.”
“To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.”
“To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!”
Source: Healology
“To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it.”