T Quotes
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“To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.”
Source: Private Property, Law, and the State
“To make a collaboration succeed there can be no visible contusions or abrasions. For the collaboration to succeed, the relationship must be nourished and survive. That is absolutely essential for a collaboration to succeed.”
“To make a commencement requires a mental effort.”
“To make a concrete response to the appeal of our brothers and sisters in humanity, we must come to grips with the first of these challenges: solidarity among generations, solidarity between countries and entire continents, so that all human beings may share more equitably in the riches of our planet. This is one of the essential services that people of good will must render to humanity. The earth, in fact, can produce enough to nourish all its inhabitants, on the condition that the rich countries do not keep for themselves what belongs to all.”
“To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.”
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
“To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by partaking of the sacrament is equally serious. The solemn moments of thought while the sacrament is being served have great significance. They are moments of self-examination, introspection, self-discernment...a time to reflect and to resolve.”
“To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
“To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.”
Source: Management Culture
“To make a decision for change. Press forward. Do it flamboyantly.”
“To make a decision you need to be in a perfect environment: you have to be motivated and surrounded by the right people.”
“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)”
Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.”
“To make a difference in someone's life, you don't have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful, or perfect. You just have to care.”
“To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.”
Source: Will He Ever Return?
“To make a difference in the world, you don't have to be perfect, clever or beautiful. You just need to be kind.”
“To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.”
“To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.”
“To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.”
“To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.”
“To make a distinction between simple and professional work in a new society would result in the revolution sanctioning and recognizing as a principle a brutal fact we submit to nowadays, but that we nevertheless find unjust.”
Source: The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings
“To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.”
“To make a dream requires a piece of yourself. It may be small or it may be large, but every dream you make contains a part of you. - The Malwatch”
“To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face”
Source: Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics
“To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.”
“To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman”
“To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.”
“To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.”
“To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected
“To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.”
Source: The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)
“To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.”
“To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.”
“To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.”
“To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance.”
“To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.”
Source: The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers
“To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.”
“To make a lacy texture of holes and fills, turn around and purl. Pearl is also a kind of colour. Colours are all the colours of the rainbow and the colours between the rainbow colours between. I can never get indigo. Year after year, I wait for indigo, but even when the fashion is navy, you never get indigo, the glow, the long slow glow of indigo in the high night sky.”
“To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.”
Source: The Rest of My Life
“To make a live record - something that has a lot of life in it - is difficult. After slaving away for years in the studio, when I hear a No Age record or when I hear Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first EP or when I hear DRI or really early punk stuff, it's just so powerful, so raw - and I know how hard that is to create. It's very deceptive. It's like a Dardenne brothers film - it seems like just a handheld camera following some people around in a trailer park, but it's incredibly difficult to do that.”
“To make a livelihood, I have to use the American accent so that I can blend well with the clientele. But in my heart, I am still comfortable speaking my accent.”
Source: Breathing Two Worlds
“To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.”
Source: Management
“To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.”
“To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.”
“TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT
To make a long story short
I leave all my possessions
to the Municipal Slaughterhouse
to the Special Unit of the Police Department
to Lucky Dog Lotto
So now if you want you can shoot”
Source: Antipoems: How to Look Better and Feel Great
“To make a long story short, I auditioned for the role of Piper because I read the pilots every year and this show was head-and-shoulders above any pilot I've read in awhile. It was amazing. So, I read for Piper and I knew that I wasn't really right for it, but I loved it so much that I wanted to read for it.”
“To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.”
“To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.”
“To make a low-budget independent is not easy work.”
“To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.”
Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
“To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.”