T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To distinguish between good and evil, you have to understand the matters of what is right and what is wrong.”
“To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t an inviolable human trait but something we can lose simply by leading dull and dreary lives. ‘A rich emotional life,’ she’d written, ‘is a privilege reserved only for the daring few’.”
Source: Audition
“To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.”
“To distract himself from the pain, he focused his blurring vision on the droplets of moisture collecting like diamonds in her abundant curls. Instead of making her hair heavy and straight, the rain seemed to coil the ringlets tighter and anoint the silvery strands with a darker gloss of spun gold.”
Source: The Highwayman
“To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.”
Source: The Darkest Powers Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Summoning, The Awakening, The Reckoning
“To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.”
“To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.”
Source: Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters
“To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.”
“To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.”
“To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt
“To divide life into areas of sacred and secular, letting our devotions take care of the former while becoming secular reformers during the week, is to fail to understand the true end of man”
“To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.”
Source: Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman
“To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.”
“To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.”
“To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.”
“To do a Bond picture is a blessing but also a curse.”
“To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.”
“To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.”
“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”
“To do a great right do a little wrong.”
“To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“To do ‘a little evil’ in order to achieve ‘a greater good’ is to errantly assume that evil is ever little.”
“To do a little good is more than to accomplish great conquests.”
“To do a mundane thing with style is what drives artistes to create art!”
“To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.”
“To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then in the viewfinder. Music cues the subject and me when to shoot. The music played during a photography session is most important - stimulating to the subject and to me. As in a film, the music builds or becomes quiet, romantic; just one note sets the actor up to emote for his audience. I want a reciprocal portrait, not a bureaucratic one”
“To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.”
“To do a sequel is so weird, you don't really think about it.”
“To do a world tour with my album, that would be really incredible. I love travelling, and I love travelling through my music.”
“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.”
“To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.”
“To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.”
“To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility.”
Source: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
“To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.”
“To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“To do anything is known as wrong belief (bhranti) and to Know is considered as 'Knowledge of the Self' (Gnan).”
Source: Aptavani-2
“To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.”
“To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.”
“To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.”
“To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession. Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything. I respect all forms of movement and lifestyles, but I am in a bubble. I wake up, it is in my head; I go to sleep, it's in my head, 24/7.”
“To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.”
Source: Mission: success!
“To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.”
Source: Heaven and Hardpan Farm
“To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.”
“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality”
Source: Utilitarianism
“To do better, to be better, to make other things better. My whole damn life is my passion project. You think I have big hair; you should see my dreams.”
Source: Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately
“To do business with a friend is difficult. The business itself is so stressful, so if you're havin' a bad day you can easily take it out on somebody, and then you takin' it out on somebody can easily turn into a blowup. It's weird, because you might really get to know a person by doin' business with them, then you probably decide you don't even wanna be around them, and that can really launch it off.”
“To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.”
“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions...
Ideology—that is what gives the evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.”
“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.”