T Quotes
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“To contemplate is, as we have seen, to gain knowledge; and although the extent of knowledge attainable by ordinary human beings is very limited, and even the most knowledgeable of Prophets or Angels know almost nothing in comparison with the Divine Knowledge, it is incumbent on every human being to seek knowledge in this and other ways; and the merits of contemplation is the point where this discussion began”
“To contemplate is to look at shadows.”
“To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.”
“To contemplation's sober eye,
Such is the race of man;
And they that creep, and they that fly,
Shall end where they began,
Alike the busy and the gay,
But flutter through life's little day.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins
“To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.”
Source: The poems of Thomas Gray with critical notes, a life of the author... by John Mitford
“To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.”
“To continue in one path is to go backward.”
“To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both.”
“To continue reproducing racial inequality, the system only needs for white people to be really nice and carry on – to smile at people of color, to go to lunch with them on occasion. To be clear, being nice is generally a better policy than being mean. But niceness does not bring racism to the table and will not keep it on the table when so many of us who are white want it off. Niceness does not break with white solidarity and white silence. In fact, naming racism is often seen as not nice, triggering white fragility.”
“To continue this point, the universe, as we know it, and from everything that we can learn about it, has been getting always more complex since it began. It does this because that is its nature. The tendency toward complexity has carried the universe from almost perfect simplicity to the kind of complexity that we see around us, everywhere we look. The universe is always doing this. It is always moving from the simple to the complex.”
Source: Shantaram
“To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . .”
“To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.”
Source: A kind of testament
“To contrast Naisbitt’s megatrends, the Disruptive Futures Institute coined the term “metaruptions”. A metaruption is a multidimensional family of systemic disruptions.... Metaruptions cause widespread and self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.”
“To contribute means add a positive or take away own negative.”
“To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.”
“To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.”
“To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.”
“To control climate change, solutions have to evolve faster than the problem.”
Source: Climate Flip - Climate Risk Reporting In Banks
“To control disease is called treatment,
To be aware of health is called wellness.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.”
Source: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
“To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.”
“To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.”
“To control the mind with force is like putting a viper in a basket.”
“To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.”
Source: Belloc: A Biographical Anthology
“To control your anger when needed, keep quiet, but under no circumstances hurt anyone because it hurts your heart more when you are hurt by someone.”
“To control your hormones is to control your life.”
“To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.”
“To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind.”
“To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.”
“To converse is to risk the unraveling of the said and the unsaid.”
Source: Just Us: An American Conversation
“To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.”
Source: Love for Love
“To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face”
“To convert a day is to produce a product”
“To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren’t very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.”
“To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.”
“To convey in the print the feeling you experienced when you exposed your film – to walk out of the darkroom and say: ‘This is it, the equivalent of what I saw and felt!’. That’s what it’s all about.”
“To convey one’s mood
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic”
“To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.”
“To convince people don't try to reach their head try to reach their heart.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.”
“To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.”
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.”
“To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“To cook your hare you must first catch it.”
Source: The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections
“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.”
“To cop-out, is not a way to cope.”
“To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense”
“To copy faults is want of sense.”
Source: Poems