T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To look at a star by glances - to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the retina (more susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the interior), is to behold the star distinctly - is to have the best appreciation of its lustre - a lustre which grows dim just in proportion as we turn our vision fully upon it.”
Source: Tales & Sketches - Volume 1: 1831-1842
“To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.”
“To look at any substantial issue or situation at first glance / surface level alone and make a judgement is as unwise as only looking at someone’s face for a brief moment and think that you truly know them.”
“To look at any thing,
If you would know that thing,
You must look at it long:
To look at this green and say,
"I have seen spring in these
Woods," will not do - you must
Be the thing you see:
You must be the dark snakes of
Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,
You must enter in
To the small silences between
The leaves,
You must take your time
And touch the very peace
They issue from.”
“To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long.”
“To look at everything as if it’s looking at me; as if I am what I see.”
Source: Under Moonlight: 2025
“To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.”
“To look at infidelity from the point of view of sex is a complete narrowing of the phenomenon. There's a reason that the commandment is repeated twice in the Bible - once for doing it and once for thinking about it. We have always created structures and broken structures. It is essential to the human spirit.”
“To look at Islam through western lens is like looking at the sky through a woodworm's eyes.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“To look at Islam through western lens is like looking at the sky through a woodworm's eyes, the same is with Sindh, the same is with China, the same is with Africa, and Latin America.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape policies that will serve the American people, keep them safe, keep our economy growing, put people back to work.”
“To look at my world as my only plane of existence was so limiting, and a little depressing. I needed the boundless worlds I found in good fiction.”
“To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.”
“To look at possibility is to be free.”
“To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.”
“To look at the climate crisis alone - and in my view this is an election where we're not just deciding what kind of a world we will be but whether we will have a world or not, going forward. And the climate crisis, for one thing, you know, Hillary [Clinton] has not repudiated fracking by any means, nor fossil fuels.”
“To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.”
Source: 1949-1959
“To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.”
“To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.”
“To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.”
“To look at you and to feel nothing is the closure that I desire.”
“To look at yourself in the mirror
and want to die
is a feeling that can not be described to those that have never existed in such
darkness.”
Source: the things I didn't say in therapy
“To look away and belittle a terrible storm is the same as to despise a terribly sharp knife without touching it!”
“To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.”
Source: To Hallow this Life: An Anthology
“To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.”
“To look back at history, during WWII, Rosie the Riveter and all that, when women needed to get to work, the US opened a LOT of daycare centers very fast. When we have the will, we do it; we're capable of doing these things. Continuing to raise awareness is important.”
“To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.”
“To look back is to relax one's vigil.”
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.”
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“To look back, to go back, is not to be weak. It is not to reopen wounds. It takes strength, it takes courage. It takes a person who is more in control of who they are to cast a discerning, non-judgmental eye over who they once were.”
Source: Postscript
“To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.”
“To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.”
“To look deeply into the lawn and see six shades of green - there is hardly that respite for you. And that's our job that we're doing. And it's even more demanding for someone like yourself, who is so extremely creative. But you have to move forward. You cannot just wallow or sit back and take in the accolades. They're wonderful, the accolades, and you appreciate them. But then you go on to the next moment. You have to always be going out to the end of the diving board and diving off.”
“To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.”
Source: 48 Days to the Work You Love
“To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.”
Source: Mortal Questions : Canto
“To look for solace is to learn to ask fiercer and more exquisitely pointed questions, questions that reshape our identities and our bodies and our relation to others.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.”
“To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.”
“To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living.”
“To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.”
“To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.”
“To look good in defeat is the ultimate a person can want.”
Source: Diamonds of the Night
“To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.”
“To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.”
“To look in the eyes of the one you live with & see true love is indeed the purest of pleasures.”
Source: Heart of Stone
“To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.”