T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.”
“To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.”
“To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.”
“To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.”
“To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.”
“To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.”
“To compare yourself to another is to disregard your uniqueness in favor of theirs.”
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical...A wise and frugal government...shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned...Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated...Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands?”
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . . . even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern. . . .”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
“To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.”
“To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.”
“To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.”
“To compete with your reflection, is to have already won long term.”
“To competently perform rectifying security service, two critical incident response elements are necessary: information and organization.”
“To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.”
“To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations.”
Source: Dirty Truths
“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”
“To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.”
“To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.”
Source: Mind of the Maker
“To complement our internal urge to believe in a Creator, we are also provided guidance external to us. Allah has introduced Himself through His books and messengers (pbut). Qur’an, the last divine book in presenting the basic premise of Islam focuses our attention on some aspects of nature. Modern science instead of undermining faith has actually found nothing inconsistent about these statements with established facts of science.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.”
“To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that conservatism is simply a political argument in defense of large accumulations of private property, that expansion, centralization, and accumulation are the tenets of conservatives. From this confusion, from the popular belief that Hamilton was the founder of American conservatism, the forces of tradition in the United States never have fully escaped.”
Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“To completely accept that your friends are doing better than you is one of the hardest thing.”
“To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.”
“To completely understand me you must first accept that I am not you.”
Source: Dreaming in the Shadows
“To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult”
“To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.”
“To complicate matters, the human machine, with its hardware and software components, doesn’t always function as anticipated.
Our DNA, our genetic code, essentially acts like an instruction manual, working in the background to influence our behaviour alongside our occasionally faulty logic systems, making us vulnerable to emotional influence.
Annoyingly, there is no user manual to explain this.”
Source: Curious
“To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.”
“To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.”
Source: Edward Weston on photography
“To compose is to remember music that has never been written.”
“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”
Source: Selections from the essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.”
Source: Complete Essays
“To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.”
Source: Michael Faraday
“To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is till wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.”
Source: Michael Faraday
“To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.”
“To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.”
“To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.”
“To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.”
“To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.”
“To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.”
Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin
“To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.”
Source: The Life of Jesus
“To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending.”
Source: The Flame of Attention
“To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation, then what is? Surely, meditation is to understand every thought that comes into being, and not to dwell upon one particular thought; it is to invite all thoughts so that you understand the whole process of thinking.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1956-1957, A light to yourself
“To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.”
“To conclude, if God gives you success, use it humbly and far from revenge. If He restores you upon hard conditions, whatever you promise, keep.
--- Charles I's final letter to his son, Charles,
Prince of Wales, 1649”
Source: The Chocolate Maker's Wife