T Quotes
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“To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.”
“To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.”
Source: Essays and Studies
“To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.”
“To have real, practical, functional international relations, we must act as a people of a planet first, then if we so desire, as people of nations.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.”
“To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.”
Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition
“To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are. Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life’s purpose. They become so disillusioned that they stand still in the river and do not take the next leap.”
“To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“To have resources and to be resourceful are two different things; it has to do with the attitude towards serving self and others”
“To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.”
“To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.”
“To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.”
Source: Strength to Love
“To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.”
“To have slaved so many years for nothing!”
“To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.”
Source: All the Little Live Things
“to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.”
“To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!”
Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)
“To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.”
“To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.”
“To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.”
“To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.”
“To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.”
“To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy altogether.”
Source: More Than Just Friends
“To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.”
“To have someone who's got a strong individual voice that is allowed to be heard is quite increasingly rare. These people need to be cherished.”
“To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.”
“To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something.”
“To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.”
“To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.”
Source: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
“To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
“To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.”
“To have success you must have had the option of failure.”
“To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.”
“To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.”
“To have swagger, your intention has to outweigh your fear.”
Source: Swagger: Unleash Everything You Are and Become Everything You Want
“To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head... And I don’t think that should get any easier.”
“To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.”
“To have that mentality of wear whatever you want, be whoever you want to be, on and offstage. This is who I am.”
“To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.”
“To have that radical a mind in that bourgeois-looking body was really hard for a lot of people to take, because, when my mother would want to have people over she'd tell [my father], "Don't start with the gravity stuff." And then he would invariably do this and the guests would look at each other and say, "Well, I think it's time to go now."”
“To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is
potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain
indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of
either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand
forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little
perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses.”
Source: On Self-Respect
“To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out – since our self-image is untenable – their false notion of us. We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gist for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give. Of course I will play Francesca to your Paolo, Helen Keller to anyone’s Annie Sullivan; no expectation is too misplaced, no role too ludicrous. At the mercy of those we cannot but hold in contempt, we play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.”
“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.”
“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.”
Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem
“To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery.”
Source: Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces