T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To copy is to invite disaster.”
“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”
“To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.”
Source: Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised version) in letters and documents
“To Correct a child will be more expensive than to Teach.
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“To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.”
“To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.”
Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“To corrupt a man,
pollute his mind.
To devalue a woman,
hurt her heart.
To impair a child,
poison his soul.
To build a man,
feed his mind.
To sustain a woman,
nourish her heart.
To raise a child,
cultivate his soul.”
“To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.”
Source: 5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection
“To count the stones losing count
is the sense of our life: the algebra
of our displacements.
To follow paths losing sense
is the circumvolution, the evolution: the logic
of our moments. But. No.
There is no symmetry in our acts.
Never the chance of steps that surprise us
to salt.
Our time machine. Forward.
Never backward the meat machine.
No turning back. No turning back.
There is no remedy: death
is an incurable asymmetry.
Huge is the ticking of the Clock but
but our time has the clutch, the vortex
the saltwater of a wave that covers us.
It reshapes and hollows out the face, like sand
robs us of our flesh.”
Source: Of Time and Goats
“To counter a depression such as this, Maimonides recommended tending to the five senses 'for the purpose of quickening the soul.' Hearing was to be nourished 'by listening to stringed and reed-pipe music,' seeing 'by gazing at beautiful pictures,' smelling 'by strolling through beautiful gardens,' feeling 'by wearing fine raiment,' and tasting 'by eating highly seasoned delicacies.' Such things, Maimonides judged, 'are not to be considered immoral nor unnecessary,' These recommendations give us a rare glimpse into the private man and allow the question of whether, under the stern guise of his role as adviser and legislator, Maimonides could enjoy good food and the smell of jasmine in a garden for their own sake. Cairo was not Córdoba, but it would do. Intellectual pursuits, both religious and scientific, he tells us, were of help to lift a little the dark clouds.”
Source: Maimonides: Faith in Reason
“To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.”
“To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.”
“To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.”
“To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.”
“To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.”
Source: Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings
“To cover as many of these (childhood vaccines) as possible, we have decided to use the vaccines on the US childhood schedule of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This schedule, as far as we can tell, includes more vaccines than any other country in the world.”
Source: Vaccine Science Revisited: Are Childhood Immunizations As Safe As Claimed?
“To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.”
“To cover such a stretch in a single breath is by no means easy; one’s wings get very tired, flying high, without hope and without remorse… No, let us not lead any further the haggard pack of pickaxes and spades across the explosive mines of this impious song. The crocodile will not change a word of the vomitings from beneath his skull.”
Source: Maldoror and Poems
“To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the public, and the nation... there was not the slightest glimmer that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed from top to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of the public... the system is merely a cartel with a government facade.”
“To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“To craft my own morals is to build a rudderless ship in a sea of rocky shoals buffeted by a contrary wind.”
“To Craig's [ Brewer] credit, I felt totally safe on the set [of Black Snake Moan] . And because I felt safe, Sam[L.Jackson] had to protect me. He got upset at all the physical stuff Craig wanted me to do. When I start doing stuff like that, all the screaming and running, I kinda go out of my head. I'm not necessarily in my own body anymore.”
“To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp and wound the handle till the pressure built. I drank coffee in titrated doses. It was a tricky business, requiring the finely tuned judgment of a skilled anesthesiologist. There was a tiny range within which coffee was effective, short of which it was useless, and beyond which, fatal.”
“To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about “getting things done in Washington” is like sitting far back in the end zone seats at the Super Bowl and screaming at the Miami linebackers “Stop Duane Thomas!”
Source: Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing - the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.”
“To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.”
Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.”
“To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that's how you do things.”
“To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless, a community which shares such a scorn and disrespect for the present society that it can embrace the whole bundle of rules and subvert them thereby, that should be our goal.”
“To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.”
Source: Sex and the Soul, Updated Edition: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses
“To create a great work, melt yourself inside your work and disappear! When you create something wonderful, people does not see you, but see only your work!”
“To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.”
“To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.”
“To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!”
“To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.”
“To create a little flower is the labour of ages.”
Source: Collected Poems
“To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
“To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.”
“To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality”
“To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.”
Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
“To create a new belief is easy but to understand and improve someone's concept and to develop it for good is difficult.”
“To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person.”
“To create a new reality, exit from the existing reality and dream! You cannot travel to the new port without leaving the old port!”
“To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.”
“To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.”
“To create a new universal idea is to create a new star in the universe!”
“To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.”
“To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.”
“To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.”
“To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in the exact same place, seemed crazy.”