T Quotes
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“To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.”
“To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton
“To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.”
“To many battles are the fictional skirmishes of an unoccupied mind.”
“To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when you can't do anything about poverty or the budget deficit, and you can't deal with Bosnia or the possibility of nuclear explosions in Russia, what do you do? You bash Hollywood and get on the front pages.”
“To many fame comes too late.”
“To many, it might sound shocking to say you can be unforgiving, but it's true and even Proverbially encouraged—with unrepentant people and without prolonged bitterness.”
“To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit”
Source: The C++ Programming Language
“To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.”
“To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.”
“To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.”
Source: Essays, Old and New
“To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.”
“To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.”
Source: The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
“To many mortals silence great gain brings.”
Source: The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses
“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.”
“To many of you, I may appear young. But my soul knows no bounds; both in the past, the present and the future.”
“To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.”
Source: The New Land
“To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit.”
“To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.”
“To many people, I am no longer just myself. I am a reminder of a thought that is difficult for the rational brain to accept: our bodies might fail at any moment.”
Source: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“To many people I have no doubt that it appears merely silly. I once found it expressed in a rather amusing way in a Russian Book called Dal Zoviet, which means the lure of far horizons. The author is Galinischev Kutuzoff [Golenischev-Kutuzov], and he tells of a man in Northern Mongolia who goes out of his yurt every morning to breathe the free air of the steppes and enjoy the immensity and the solitude. But one day he feels an uncomfortable sense of oppression, almost as if he could not breathe. He looks about to find the reason. And there, across the undulating grasslands, is a line of telegraph poles. And after the place never the same to him again.”
Source: The Maker of Heavenly Trousers
“To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection.”
“To many people today, slavery means white people holding black people in bondage. The vast millions of people around the world who were neither white nor black, but who were either slaves or enslavers for centuries, fade out of this vision of slavery, as if they had never existed, even though they may well have outnumbered both blacks and whites. It has been estimated that there were more slaves in India than in the entire Western Hemisphere. China during the era of slavery has been described as “one of the largest and most comprehensive markets for the exchange of human beings in the world.” Slaves were a majority of the population in some of the cities in Southeast Asia. At some period or other in history, as John Stuart Mill pointed out, “almost every people, now civilized, have consisted, in majority, of slaves.”
Source: Intellectuals and Society
“To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.”
“To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.”
“To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.”
Source: Broadway in review
“To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.”
Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel
“To many playing the game of blame, lying in shame refusing to tame the flame of the lame, what is its name? (PRIDE)”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.”
Source: Simply Christian
“To many white fans, the Attucks players were like the Harlem Globetrotters, entertainers who had come to play an exhibition. But the games meant something quite different to Principal Lane. He viewed each backwoods gym as a showcase for progress and each Attucks player a goodwill ambassador. A game at a rural schoolhouse was a chance to demonstrate to white fans, some of whom doubtless still had robes and hoods stashed in their closets, that black and white Hoosiers could compete without violence or incident. If Hoosiers could observe racial harmony while their sons competed in a packed gym, Lane thought, they would later come to believe in its possibility in schools and neighborhoods.”
Source: Unbeatable: How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World
“To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.”
“To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.”
“To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them.”
“To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.”
Source: The Dogwood Collection: Dogwood / June Bug / Almost Heaven
“To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.”
“To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.”
“To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read, let them become familiar with the great principles underlying these ideas, and it is ninety-nine to one that the charm will come over them, and fascination will be the result. Slow and silent, as the gentle dew that falls in the morning, unseen and unheard yet producing a most tremendous result, has been the work of the calm, patient, all-suffering spiritual race upon the world of thought.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples.”
Source: Subnormal Operators
“To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.”
“To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.”
Source: The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life
“To mark the 0-year anniversary of 9/, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund.”
“To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.”
“To marry a fool is to be no fool.”
“To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.”
Source: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith
“To marry a woman with any success a man must have a total experience of her, he must come to see her and accept her in time as well as in space. Besides coming to love what she is now, he must also come to realize and love equally the baby and the child she once was, and the middle-aged woman and the old lady she will eventually become.”
“To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.”
“To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?”
Source: The Studios at Cogslea: Delaware Art Museum, February 20-March 28, 1976
“To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.”
Source: The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple
“To marry for support is legal prostitution.”
Source: "A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN (WITH STRICTURES ON POLITICAL AND MORAL SUBJECTS) "