T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To make America great is about, hey, this country's in trouble. By doing things the old-fashioned way, I'm going to bring in people, deal-makers, who know how to change things dramatically.”
“To make America’s least employable citizens dependent on the whims of the state, rather than their neighbors, is to clear a path for demagogues.”
“To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.”
“To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.”
“To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.”
“To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.”
Source: The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author
“To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.”
“To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!”
“To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.”
“To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.”
“To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
“To make an end is to make a beginning.”
“To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.”
“To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.”
“To make an exceptional living with a career as a writer, you need multiple sources of writing income to sustain lifelong earnings. Never depend on only one origin of income as a novelist.”
“To make an idea become a reality is a process that fascinates me; otherwise it stays just an idea.”
“To make an omelet you must first break some eggs.”
“To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.”
“To make any gain some outlay is necessary.”
“To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.”
“To make art you need to be inspired.”
“To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.”
“To make best of Agile; find a framework, customize it.”
Source: Agile Able: Project Management Simplified
“To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.”
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages. Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he or she has been born -- the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to he accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it be-devils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.”
Source: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.”
“To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.”
“To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.”
“To make democracy work, Jayaprakash Narayan suggests, to undo tyranny, it is only necessary for India to return truly to itself. The Ramraj that Gandhi offered is no longer simply Independence, India without the British; it is people's government, the reestablishment of the ancient Indian village republic, a turning away from the secretariats of Delhi and the state capitals. But this is saying nothing; this is to leave India where it is. What looks like a political programme is only clamour and religious excitation. People's government and the idea of the ancient village republic (which may be a fanciful idea, a nationalist myth surviving from the days of the Independence struggle) are not the same thing. Old India has its special cruelties; not all the people are people.”
Source: India: A Wounded Civilization
“To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man
“To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“To make dictionaries is dull work.”
“To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.”
“To make dollars from cents you must have sense.”
“To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.”
“To make every little thing special is to grant a magical quality to your life. Once your life becomes charmed in such a way, whatever blocks you may have experienced in the past melt in the light of that inner energy pouring from your heart. From a businessman's point of view, this is beautiful, for everything you touch turns to gold. Further, it helps you to believe in yourself. In seeing worth all around, you make your every act an affirmation of your strength.”
“To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.”
“To make films is as boring as watching paint dry. You usually have to do tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.”
“To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.”
“To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.”
“To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.”
“To make foolish to the people is easy but to convey them that you become fool is very hard”
“To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.”
Source: The Romance of the Commonplace
“To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.”
“To make good environmental decision, we must stop focusing on trying to remove or undo human influence, on turning back time or freezing the non-human world in amber. We must instead acknowledge the extent to which we have influenced our current world and take some responsibility for its future trajectory…We should not seek to carefully control every plant and animal on the planet. We couldn’t even if we wanted to.”
Source: Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
“To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.”
“To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.”
“To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.”
Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld
“To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.”
Source: Hunting Ground