T Quotes
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“To give law enforcement the additional tools it needs to track down terror here at home.”
“To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.”
Source: Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820
“To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.”
“To give life another being, what a gift! When he finally was placed into my arms, I looked into his precious eyes and felt an overwhelming, unconditial love... I never felt so complete and empowered in my life.”
“to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.”
Source: Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History
“To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.”
“To give more, earn more.”
“To give myself over in the service of others may mean that I will forfeit everything that I want, but it also means that I will receive everything that I need. And if I am not big enough to let go of the former, then I am not yet big enough to handle the latter.”
“To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.”
“To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.”
Source: Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
“To give one's heart is to give all.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.”
“To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.”
“To give optimism a hand up, we must come to understand that behind the mask of pessimism there is nothing more than fear bent on knocking us down.”
“To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.”
“To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.”
“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
“To give power to that which has no bearing on one's life simply means one is not living their true life.”
“To give power was a far easier thing than to take it away.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.”
“To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.”
Source: Practical Ethics
“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”
“To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.”
Source: John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition
“To give requires good sense.”
“To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
That you have no time to criticise others,
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
And too happy to permit the presence of trouble.”
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them
“To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.”
“To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.”
“To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.”
“To give support should be commonplace in our society, not to be asked for.”
“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”
“To give thanks to God is acknowledge His goodness.”
“To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.”
“To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction”
“To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.”
“To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.”
“To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.”
“To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.”
Source: The Curate's Awakening
“To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.”
Source: Tarr
“To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.”
“To give up dreaming is to betray yourself!”
“To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe in the redeption and final glorification of men; and this faith is the best inspiration to a holy and useful life for the good of our race of the glory of God.”
Source: The Person of Christ: The Perfection of His Humanity Viewed as a Proof of His Divinity
“To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.”
“To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.”
“to give up on your dream is to commit abortion on the life you could have had.”
“To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.”
“To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.”
Source: Travels
“To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.”
“To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.”
Source: Complete Works