T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”
Source: Under the Greenwood Tree: Or the Mellstock Quire: a Rural Painting of the Dutch School
“To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.”
“To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions.”
“To each eyes that you comfort, You mean something different. As if a thousand lives that you have lived, You could be anything to anyone. I wonder how you would like to be remembered. To me you are the sweet maiden, Who is busy writing my life on paper. Or are you a story I am living, Through your dove like eyes…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“To each his fate in love, I suppose.”
Source: A Dream of Red Mansions
“To each his own, I supposed, and I had more important things, like my impending death, to worry about.”
“To each his own magic.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.”
“To each his own. It's one of those things. How you build your familyyou have to know what you're capable of handling and how your children will relate to each other. Maybe if you have one child and that child has a lot of needs, you realize you cannot give more attention to another. Sometimes you just know as a parent. We felt we could handle more children, and we have a very happy, very full home.”
“To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.”
“To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.”
“To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.”
“To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.”
“To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.”
“To each man shall his own free actions bring both his suffering and his good fortune. Jupiter is impartially king over all alike. The Fates will find the way.”
Source: The Aeneid
“To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.”
“To each of my Nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of my swords or Cutteaux of which I may be Possesed; and they are to chuse in the order they are named. These Swords are accompanied with an injuction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for self defense, or in the defense of their Country and its rights; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their hands, to the relenquishment thereof.”
“To each of the mourners outside in the lane, I would be no more than a pale face glimpsed for a moment behind the glass. I wished I could smile at each of them, but I knew I must not, since a grinning mug would spoil their memories of this sad occasion.
We were all of us mourners overtaken by the moment: It was not ours to shape. We must give ourselves over to being the Grieving Family, upon whom others must be permitted to shower sympathy.
All of this I knew without ever having been told. It had somehow been born in my blood.”
Source: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
“To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961
“To each, or about each, of his colleagues he had said at one time or other, something... something impossible to recall in this or that case and difficult to define in general terms -- some careless bright and harsh trifle that had grazed a stretch of raw flesh.”
Source: Bend Sinister
“To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins)”
Source: The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction
“To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.”
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire
“To each our own Hamlet.”
“To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.”
“To each their own”
Source: Dating Dr. Dil
“To each their own. One must live each day so that there are no regrets.”
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
“To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.”
Source: The Odes of Pindar
“To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring today under the gravest evils due to the huge disparity between the few exceedingly rich and the unnumbered propertyless, must be effectively called back to and brought into conformity with the norms of the common good, that is, social justice.”
Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)
“To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.”
“To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches, the way they seemed to die and come again to life in spring, the sudden growth of the plant from the seed - all these appeared to be miracles as indeed they still are, miracles of nature!”
“To early spring
Yes! Flowers will bloom again.
Birds will then sing as always,
and people will smile at one another in the spring.”
Source: Of Dawn, Of Dusk: The Poetry of Tachihara Michizo
“To earn higher returns on value, you must make an effort to spread the value”
“To earn more, you must learn more.”
Source: Be a Sales Superstar: 21 Great Ways to Sell More, Faster, Easier in Tough Markets (Large Print 16pt)
“To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.”
“To earn respect, you should do something respectful.”
“To earn the support of grass-roots activists, you have to spend real time, looking them in the eyes, answering their questions. Part of it is also you have to have a message that inspires people.”
“To earn their stripe as transformative digital leaders, CIOs have to become more visible, proactive, and innovative.”
Source: The Change Agent CIO
“To ease a grieving heart is the world's greatest pleasure, more so, when the heart is yours.”
“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
“To ease the guilt of noninvolvement, we charge the church with the job of meeting needs. We forget that we are the church! (p. 18)”
Source: Treasures of Encouragement: Women Helping Women in the Church
“To ease the pain, erase the anger.”
“To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.”
“To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
[Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]”
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
“To eat, drink, arise, awake etc. are all religion (dharma) of the body. One has not come into one’s own Self Religion (atma dharma) even for a second. Had he done so, he would never ever leave God.”
“To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.”
Source: Italian Food
“To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.”
Source: The Cloister Walk
“To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.”
Source: A Lucky American Childhood
“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”