T Quotes
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“To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.”
Source: Faraday as a Discoverer
“To him, freedom was greater than love.
She hated that.
Because she had always thought that love was freedom.”
Source: Heaven Has No Regrets
“To Him I owe my life and breath, And all the joys I have; He makes me triumph over death, And saves me from the grave.”
Source: The works ...: now first collected into a body: with some account of his life and writings
“To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.”
“To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.”
Source: Reamde
“To him, Layla's promising aroma was not a reminder of a long-lost boyhood or the instigator of teenage lust. No, for Malachy, the sight of Layla's exotic profile filling up a bag of white onions was a sign, a resounding 'yes' to the age-old questions of the divine.
Yes, there was a God. Yes, there was life beyond the sleepy valleys of Ballinacroagh. Yes, there 'were' undiscovered universes waiting just for him. And one of them was standing right before him, in all her astounding milky ways.”
Source: Pomegranate Soup
“To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more; angels will come and minister unto us; and when we pass from them to the ministry of life, be it to the glory of a transfiguration, the sorrows of a Gethsemane, or the sacrifice of the cross, the tran- quilizing peace of God will never be far from us.”
“To him, nature was a merciless beast that fed on its young without caring about the fate of the beings it harboured.”
Source: Marina
“To Him no high, no low, no great, no small;
He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
“To him [Papa], the written word could act as an invitation to free thought and the broader world, and nowhere was that more true than in the dawn of the printed word, where — for the first time — that invitation could be made to the masses instead of a select few. (4)”
“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
“To him, she was always Mama, Madraya.”
Source: The Demon in the Wood
“To him,
she was like a flower
that bloomed in the snow.
Thriving under conditions
in which nothing could grow.
To some,
she was a weed
born benighted.
But in his eyes,
she was a wildflower
with a soul ignited.”
“To him that will, waies are not wanting.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“to him the house beautiful represented the visible form of life itself”
Source: How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris
“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores”
“To him, the world had no order of succession, no causation, no precedent. Everything he saw was new-minted, and thus every day was a parade of wonders.”
“To him, time is precious. That is why he spends his hours wisely, like a shrewd investor—his ledger records not only monetary gains, but also moments of impact.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.”
“To him who feels that Nature is lovely, it appears an end in itself, it has the ground of its existence in itself: … the question, Why does it exist? does not arise. … Nature, as it impresses his senses, has indeed had an origin, has been produced, but not created in the religious sense, … [H]e posits … as the ground of Nature, a force of Nature, - a real, present, visibly active force, as the ground of reality. … Anaxagoras (510-428BC : 'Life is a journey.'): - Man is born to behold the world. … [M]an contents himself, allows himself free play, … [with] the sensuous imagination alone. … [H]e lets Nature subsist in peace, and constructs his castles in the air. … When, on the contrary, man … is in disunion with Nature[,] he makes Nature the abject vassal of his selfish interest, of his practical egoism. … Nature or the world is made, created, the product of a command.”
Source: Essence of Christianity
“To him who has determined, it only remains to act.”
“To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.”
Source: Be Here Now
“To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.”
Source: Molloy
“To Him who has sense, a sign is enough
For the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.”
Source: Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
“To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.”
Source: Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous: Critical and miscellaneous writings
“To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.”
“To him who is afraid, everything rustles.”
“To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.”
“To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.”
Source: Hasidism
“To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.”
“To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.”
Source: Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History
“To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.”
Source: Reading Hegel: The Introductions
“To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Poems
“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”
Source: The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler
“To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.”
Source: Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings
“To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education.”
Source: Rousseau and Revolution
“To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.”
“To his children, Will showed the same love he had always shown to her, fierce and unyielding. And the same protectiveness he had only ever showed to one other person: the person James had been named after. Will’s parabatai, Jem.”
Source: The Whitechapel Fiend
“To His Coy Mistress
Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found;
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long-preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust;
The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“To his credit John Wayne was open about it, he even portrayed a member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in a film called 'Big Jim McClain.'”
“To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity.”
“To his distress, the Queen suddenly "burst into a passion of weeping and said it was plain [she] was to be miserable as long as [she] lived, whatever [she] did.”
Source: Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
“To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.”
“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
“To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.”
“To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations
“To his foreign guests, Vasiṣṭha said: “You have entered a place where amazement is vain. Everything is normal here. There are fathers who are sons of their sons or sons who are fathers of their fathers and their sisters, who are their lovers and wives too. Here the latter-day priest is also among the first of the gods. Here the monster is an ascetic and the ascetics fight the monsters.”
Source: Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India
“To his house--to his house--down with it--death to the traitor!" and the loyal mob hastened on, each individual eager to be first to prove his loyalty, by helping himself to Mynheer Krause's goods and chattels.”
Source: Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend