T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.”
“To grant me a vision of Nature's forces that bind the world, all its seeds and sources and innermost life... all this I shall see... and stop peddling in words that mean nothing to me."
(Daß ich erkenne was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält... Schau alle Wirkenskraft und Samen... und tu nicht mehr in Worten kramen.)”
“To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.”
Source: Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt
“To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.”
Source: The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)
“To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.”
“To grasp any conceptual idea of potential, it is fundamental for humanity to include selflessness, confidence, optimism and faith. Advocates of conviction. Noth the richest. Not the loudest. Not the most popular. Not even the most intelligent. People who will actively advocate all examples of potential, increase and improvement with no prerequisites, no prejudices, no filibustering.”
Source: A Book That I Would Read
“To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth.”
“To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume that what is named is as enduring as its name. Human beings blessed and cursed with consciousness - especially consciousness of their own being - think in terms of names, words, symbols.”
“To grasp love, I must grasp the fact that it is a creation of God and therefore it is forever beyond me. But the very fact that it is forever beyond me is the very thing that prompts me to forever pursue it.”
“To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome" such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingly.”
“To grasp the essence of today’s unfolding story, one must first delve into the pages of yesterday’s intricate narrative, for therein lie the profound lessons that shape our present and guide our future.”
Source: Death: Light of Life and the Shadow of Death
“To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.”
“To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.”
“To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.”
“To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough to cover a great city like London or New York. What we would then see would be an object of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design. On the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings, like the port holes of a vast space ship, opening and closing to allow a continual stream of materials to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of these openings we would find ourselves in a world of supreme technology and bewildering complexity.”
Source: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
“To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.”
Source: Holidays in Hell
“To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.”
“To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.”
“To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.”
“To greet each day ossified;
Like fossil remains forgotten beneath the feet of something more lively.”
“To greet the present is to part with the past and future.”
Source: Awakening in the 21st Century
“To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It is rather an injury; for our sad thought must reach the person, even if passed to another condition of existence, and it is a source of pain to that person.”
Source: The Prentice Mulford Premium Collection:
“To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.”
Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781
“To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.”
“To grieve is to know you've loved. To love is to know you're human.”
“To grieve may be
the only way to learn and integrate something
when it is no longer there or even never was,
so it can eventually live inside of us and thus
become an aspect of who we are in the world.”
“To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.”
Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons
“To grow a forest requires the right soil, favourable climatic conditions, sometimes the patient work of caretakers over many years. All it takes to make it burn is a single match thrown by a madman in an instant.
To break the silence of a crowd, a shout is enough. To dirty a square, cleaned by the patient work of many, all it takes is a single drunken madman.
To do good requires many people united, to do evil requires only one. We are in danger of overestimating the number of wicked or even just ignorant people and underestimating the number of generous people who care about the common good.
Let us not be discouraged by the folly of a few, there are many of us.
Let us stand united.”
“To grow a melody?"
"You can't grow a melody on purpose,” she said, and slyly added, “you have to plant an accidental.”
Source: Son of a Witch
“To grow a philosopher's beard.”
Source: Satires and Epistles
“To grow, be humble and ask questions most of the time. When you do so, a wise and smart person sees him/herself in you and treats you with dignity. On the other hand, if you ask questions and try to learn from a shallow and fool person, s/he treats you with contempt and disrespect. Now, you know who is who...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“To grow capacity in your career, you need to move from the place of position to a place of skill acquisition.”
“To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.”
Source: Writing Alone and with Others
“To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.”
“To grow in unconditional love and in beauty is spirituality.”
“To grow in your passion for what Jesus has done, increase your understanding of what He has done.
Never be content with your grasp of the gospel. The gospel is life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than any diamond. Its depths man will never exhaust.”
Source: The Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel The Main Thing
“To grow in your passion for what Jesus has done, increase your understanding of what He has done.”
Source: Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing
“To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.”
Source: The News: A User's Manual
“To grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water’s edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by me. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore.”
“To grow is sometimes to hurt, but who would return to smallness?”
Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition
“To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.”
Source: The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal
“To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“To grow old is to grow remorseful.”
Source: Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything
“to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company. ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.”
Source: Three kingdoms
“To grow old is to lose everything.”
Source: The Painted Bed: Poems
“To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.”
Source: The Selected Poems of Donald Hall
“To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.”
Source: Carnets: 1942-1951
“To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.”
Source: Stories and Legends
“To grow, sometimes you must pour yourself into a new container.”
Source: Your Business Venture: The Prep. The Pitch. The Funding.