T Quotes
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“To have a desire means to have dependency.”
“To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.”
Source: The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice
“To have a different life you have be a different person. You have to do what you haven't done. You have to become the person that fits that dream. But most of all, you have to realize that if you don't step into your story it becomes the moral of the story. Your inaction is a lesson you leave to your kids-- I was too afraid to change.”
“To have a director that loves his actors is something that you can see in the film and in the fruits of that labor. You can see that translated in the film. When you watch this movie, you can see a director who loves his actors, and it shines through the movie, in my eyes.”
“To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.”
“To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.”
Source: The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith
“To have a few things is a comfort, reward and privilege. To own much and plenty is a duty and task on one's forehead. To waste creates agony and miserableness. Having less is a teacher of hope and guidance yet above all life is paramount because life neither needs less or much. To love less is a celebration of life because life neither needs much or less. Life is greater than less or much; to love life is an appreciation of life that is incorruptible, that will lead to life without anxiety.”
Source: Servants of the Underground
“To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.”
“To have a firm foundation as a child of God is something that so many people are longing for and wanting because they're searching for something more. There's got to be more out there. What is it? Well, I can tell you what it is. It's a relationship with the God of this universe, who loves you so much. That's what is it. That's what you're searching for. That's what you're longing for, and that's what you need.”
“To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.”
“To have a free, peaceful and prosperous world we must be ever stronger particularly in the spiritual things....It is American belief in decency and justice and progress and the value of individual liberty because of the rights conferred on each of us by our Creator that willcarry us through.... There must be something in the heart as well as the head.”
“To have a friend and a comrade as your co-star, especially in a romantic comedy, is really important. It gives you the room. It's easier to give yourself and the other person permission to play.”
“To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.”
Source: Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .”
Source: In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage
“To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.”
“To have a functioning body and not to use it is like having 20/20 vision and never opening your eyes.”
“To have a future we have to live and leave the present.”
“To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.”
“To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is, therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others.”
“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”
“To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.”
“To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
[Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici;
Expertus metuit.]”
“To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in the twentieth century is a remarkable asset, and I spend a day, maybe two days a week in that library. I just plain love it.”
“To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.”
“To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.”
Source: The educational essays
“To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.”
“To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.”
“To have a heart that is committed to excellence, you must first appreciate excellence.”
“To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.”
“To have a home, a family, a property or a public function, to have a definite means of livelihood and to be a useful cog in the social machine, all these things seem necessary, even indispensable, to the vast majority of men, including intellectuals, and including even those who think of themselves as wholly liberated. And yet such things are only a different form of slavery that comes of contact with others, especially regulated and continued contact.”
“To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.”
“To have a human form is a joyful thing.”
“To have a human life and to live as a human are two different things.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“To have a job where you can make things better for people? That's a blessing. Why would I do anything else?”
“To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.”
“To have a knee-jerk reaction to technology is to think like a victim. This is how the Dragon wants you to think—in all ways at all times. Its entire control apparatus is predicated on your tacit or explicit acceptance of victim mentality.
I’d argue that this even applies to the world’s predatory class, the so-called elites, those puffed-up minions who, while they may get a rush out of preying on others, must on some level suspect they themselves are ultimately just Dragon food.
But we, not technology, and not even the Dragon, are the real creators here. The Dragon knows this. That’s why it uses us to build its world for it, since apparently it can’t do so on its own—and it’s high time we figured this out for ourselves.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee.”
“To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.”
“To have a life on Earth means not that you fully own it and do whatever you like. Your life isn't a thing you paid for but indeed a blessing She gave. And yes, remember, She can curse too.”
“To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.”
“To have a love that is pure and honest is the most beautiful feeling in the world. To be loyal to someone is the heart's innermost desire. Someone who understands you and completes you. Someone who loves you as crazily as you love that someone!”
“To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.”
“To have a man be able to touch her and bring her to the edge of release in a matter of seconds was a skill rarely found. "As rare as the Arc of the Covenant," Sophie mumbled to herself.”
Source: Smoldering Hunger
“To have a man kiss you in a women’s jail is a gift better than any birthday or Christmas present. It’s better than a bouquet of roses. It’s better than a warm shower. I could imagine living in this jail for years and living for every workshop day and that male kiss on my cheek. That kiss was rain, sunshine, and the sweet air of outside. Yes. I knew I’d even sit there and glue stupid things onto cardboard sheets just to get that kiss again.”
Source: Prayers for the Stolen
“To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.”
Source: Miss Marjoribanks
“To have a man whose name is on the label showing such interest, commitment, and determination for the best is a wonderful thing. This is someone who will throw money at quality, who believes in being the best. Never knock it. Would you prefer to have a bean counter in corporate headquarters, someone who never comes near the brewery, making decisions solely on the basis of the bottom line and profit margins?”
Source: Beer Is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing
“To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!”
“To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking