T Quotes
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“To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there's no point to continue.”
“To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside”
Source: The Devil's Star: Harry Hole 5
“To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various viewpoints of consciousness - that we call occultism - leads to freedom.”
“To have the experience I did as a child, I would have to be a physically different being, one with whom I share nearly nothing. On a cellular level, aside from the neurons of my cerebral cortex and a few other stranglers in my heart and eyes, I am not him.”
Source: A Creature Was Stirring
“To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power. Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o'clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve. And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.”
“To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tableswithout breaking and mutually destroying them both.”
“To have the freedom to be able to make choices is something I guess every actor aspires to. Most actors don't have those kind of choices. If the part comes along, they take it.”
“To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.”
“To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.”
“To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.”
“To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.”
“To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget.”
“To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.”
“To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.”
“To have the opportunity to work with Tiger Woods was just so awesome. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed the good parts where he was winning. And I enjoyed the challenge to help him get better. But six years was enough.”
“To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.”
“To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.”
“To have the rewards that very few have, do the things that very few people are willing to do.”
“To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.”
“To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.”
“To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.”
Source: Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings
“To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.”
“To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.”
“To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.”
“To have the wings to fly and roots to reach deep inside is to find beauty and tenderness amid the gravel and dust and the wound opens the rupture into a rapture..
.....Jayita Bhattacharjee”
“To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself--his extra sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalked slug's eye which extrudes, expands, winces and shrivels back into himself when touched wrongly, grows big again. Bulging a little at the tip, traveling forward as if along a leaf into them, avid for vision. To achieve vision in this way; this journey into a darkness that is composed of women--a woman--who can see in darkness while he himself strains blindly forward.”
“To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.”
“To have this opportunity, in light of my familys struggles, made me want to create something lasting and relevant.”
“To have this uncertain world some stay, which cannot be undermined, is of the utmost consequence; and this stay it is, which gives that dignity to the manners, which shews that a person does not depend on mere human applause for comfort and satisfaction.”
Source: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
“To have thought that, with the right tests and the right lectures, I could be made into a cold-blooded, heartless killer. To have thought that I could ignore the beating of my own heart long enough to stop the beating of another's.”
“To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.”
“To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.”
“To have to be sexy? That I hate. To be outrageously sexy? That I love.”
“To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.”
“To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“To have to hear a woman's voice, and start to make a choice just based on that, is difficult.”
“To have to introduce a new product at the worst economic time in the last 50 years probably wasn't the greatest thing to have happened.”
“To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.”
“To have to watch myself in a way that was constructively critical was really good for me because it made me a little bit more easy on myself because I wasn't allowed to walk away screaming.”
“To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.”
“To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.”
“To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.
If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.”
“To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief; and I think no sensible man can wish for two within the limits of the present United Kingdom who does not wish the United Kingdom to become two or more nations, entirely separate from each other.”
Source: The Public Letters of John Bright
“To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.”
“To have wants and needs means to be alive.”
Source: Thoughts: God, Science, & Human Nature
“To have weakness is not to be flawed--it's to be complete.”
“To have what few have, do what few do.”
“To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.”
Source: Donal Grant