T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out after the show,' Cohen joked. 'Okay,' Winfrey laughed. 'I hear it's gotten better.'”
“To kids coming of age in a world of technology and unhinged capitalism, our music seems to sound the way global capital is — liquid, international, porous, and sped up.”
Source: Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture
“To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.”
“To kill a citizen of our own country is evil, but to kill a citizen of another country is 'good.'”
“To kill a genius, you must kill his legacy.”
“To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.”
Source: Understanding Comics
“To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.”
“To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.”
“To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.”
“To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.”
Source: Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
“To kill an ideology (racism); you need contact.”
“To kill and caress. Or simply kill, so you're not always bothered by something or somebody. So it is to be killed or to kill.”
Source: Diamonds of the Night
“To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?”
“To kill nothing, that is love.”
“To kill or not to kill, that was the question that haunted me.”
“To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours.”
“To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.”
Source: Mortification of Sin
“To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.”
“To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.”
“To kill the evil in you, I will be born as God, and I will build the bridge between peace and justice.”
“To kill the grass you must also remove the root”
“To kill the misconception, I don’t think the songs we wrote before ‘Danger Days’ are bad songs by any means. In fact, I kinda think some of them are among my favorites we have ever written. A lot of them are kinda f—ing rad… they just so happened to have been created in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and we as their parents were not ready to raise them just yet… and so they sat and waited.”
“To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.”
“To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.”
“To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.”
Source: Save Yourself
“To kill your enemy is not a victory; but to make your enemy your friend that is a victory!”
“To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;
But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.”
“To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.”
Source: The Passion
“To kiss you should not feel like anything other than embellishment.”
Source: Attrib. and Other Stories
“To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful weed, trodden underfoot -- a conglomeration of human lives putting down roots in this slime, living and letting live in the struggle to survive; and he was stirred by the fearful and magnificent courage communicated by the scene.”
“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”
Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two
“To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.”
“to know a country takes all we know of love:
some days better than others, but never easy to keep our promise every morning of every year, of every century, and wake up, stumble downstairs with all our raging hope, sit down at the kitchen table again, still blurry-eyed, still tired, and say: Listen, we need to talk.”
Source: How to Love a Country
“To know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it.”
Source: Dwellers in the Crucible
“To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.”
Source: The White Tower
“To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“To know a man's favourite or most constant studies cannot fail of letting in some little light upon his secret thoughts.”
Source: Carwin the Biloquist and Other American Tales and Pieces; Volume III
“To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.”
Source: March
“To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.”
Source: Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...
“To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality.”
“To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.”
Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
“to know a piece of grass, you’ve got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that’s why I remember every detail of that night, every inch of ground we covered, as I followed Zach to the place that had made him, seeing them both with fresh eyes.”
“To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
“To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule”
“To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.”
“To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!”