T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To describe this world is not to describe reality 'in itself', as it is independently of how we regard and describe it.”
“To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.”
“To deserve a standing ovation, you should not bend, you should stand”
“To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.”
“To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best”
“To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.”
“To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.”
“To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.”
“To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.”
“To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.”
“to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap”
Source: The Architecture of Happiness
“To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.”
“To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.”
“To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to making as writing is to speech: it is an ordinary physical activity pushed to a conscious edge. That interference with the given world can still be founded on admiration. Where it is not, what is the point of designing at all?”
“To desire a state is to have it.”
Source: The Law and Other Essays
“To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.”
Source: The essential Turgenev
“To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.”
“To desire heaven is to delight in holiness.”
“To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.”
“To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake”
“To desire is to dare.”
“To desire is to dream.”
“To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.”
Source: As You Think
“To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.”
“To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.”
“To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.”
Source: Charity in Truth
“To desire the Lord is to delight in the light.”
“To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
[Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]”
“To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.”
“To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.”
“To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.”
Source: The Din in the Head
“To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself.
To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change.”
Source: Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace
“To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it”
Source: Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988
“To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.”
Source: The Hagakure: Yamamoto Tsunetomo
“To desist from a continual hurt is to discover purpose”
“To despair is not to turn your back on God - it is to believe that God has turned his back on you.”
Source: Curious Faith
“To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does not want to be so weak as to listen occasionally to other talk. No, it insists on listening only to itself, on having dealings only with itself; it closes itself up within itself, indeed, locks itself inside one more inclosure, and protects itself against every attack or pursuit by the good by despairing over sin.”
“To desperately hope," I whispered James let out a breath. "To gratefully believe.”
Source: A Certain Slant of Light
“To desperation,” he said, and raised his glass. She raised hers as well, toward the altar.
“And to bleeding hearts,” she added, and they drank.”
Source: Two Serpents Rise
“To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.”
Source: The Magus
“To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.”
“To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.”
“To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.”
Source: Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world
“To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.”
“To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.”
“To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.”
Source: Survival In Auschwitz
“To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.”
“To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel”
“To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)