T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.”
Source: Phineas Redux
“To oblige people often costs little and helps much.”
“To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.”
“To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.”
“To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues. Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind.”
“To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.”
Source: Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe: Stories & Poems
“To observe is not to not feel—in fact, it is to put yourself at the mercy of feeling, like the child's warm skin meeting the cold air of midnight. My own children, too, have been roused from the unconsciousness of childhood; theirs too is the pain and the gift of awareness. 'I have two homes,' my daughter said to me one evening, clearly and carefully, 'and I have no home.' To suffer and to know what it is that you suffer: how can that be measured against its much-prized opposite, the ability to be happy without knowing why?”
Source: Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
“To observe life is not only to organize your internal and external life, but reach to the state, from where, without any effort, both your internal and external life, moves in synchronization.”
“To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.”
Source: Hind Swaraj
“To observe someone swept away by the thing they're most passionate about, most skilled at - what some call 'flow' - is one of life's great privileges. There's an energy that emanates, a magic. As if they're opening their hearts up completely and letting themselves communicate with the world in their purest form - unencumbered by insecurities, stresses, and bitterness. Like time is suspended and they're simply allowing themselves to be.”
Source: The Collected Regrets of Clover
“To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live an interesting life outside of writing.”
“To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.”
“To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.”
Source: A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
“To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.”
“To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.”
“To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.”
“To obtain greatness and strength, a man must have a good character. He is honorable and respected by others. We define him as intelligent, and as one who God has blessed with wisdom”
“To obtain his precious orgasm, the libertine must now hunt it down single-mindedly through seas of blood and excrement.”
Source: The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
“To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell, as of sin, which alone can send us thither. He who dreads sin avoids dangerous occasions, frequently recommends himself to God, and has recourse to the means of keeping himself in the state of grace. He who acts thus will be saved; but for him who lives not in this manner it is morally impossible to be saved.”
Source: The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]
“To obtain something, something of equal value must be given.”
“To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.”
“To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are but mechanisms, which will perish with the span of man's life. It is the essence beyond, that which is the motive power, and makes man live, that is now compelled to rouse itself and act.”
Source: Light on the Path
“To obtain victory by any means and with any weapon.”
“To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.”
Source: Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
“To occupy the time I talked with a rather superior tramp, a young carpenter who wore a collar and tie, and was on the road, he said, for lack of a set of tools. He kept a little aloof from the other tramps, and held himself more like a free man than a casual. He had literary tastes, too, and carried one of Scott’s novels on all his wanderings. He told me he never entered a spike unless driven there by hunger, sleeping under hedges and behind ricks in preference. Along the south coast he had begged by day and slept in bathing-machines for weeks at a time.
We talked of life on the road. He criticized the system which makes a tramp spend fourteen hours a day in the spike, and the other ten in walking and dodging the police. He spoke of his own case – six months at the public charge for want of three pounds’ worth of tools. It was idiotic, he said.
Then I told him about the wastage of food in the workhouse kitchen, and what I thought of it. And at that he changed his tune immediately. I saw that I had awakened the pew-renter who sleeps in every English workman. Though he had been famished along with the rest, he at once saw reasons why the food should have been thrown away rather than given to the tramps. He admonished me quite severely.
‘They have to do it,’ he said. ‘If they made these places too pleasant you’d have all the scum of the country flocking into them. It’s only the bad food as keeps all that scum away. These tramps are too lazy to work, that’s all that’s wrong with them. You don’t want to go encouraging of them. They’re scum.’
I produced arguments to prove him wrong, but he would not listen. He kept repeating:
‘You don’t want to have any pity on these tramps – scum, they are. You don’t want to judge them by the same standards as men like you and me. They’re scum, just scum.’
It was interesting to see how subtly he disassociated himself from his fellow tramps. He has been on the road six months, but in the sight of God, he seemed to imply, he was not a tramp. His body might be in the spike, but his spirit soared far away, in the pure aether of the middle classes.”
Source: Essays
“To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.”
“To Odin many a soul was driven, to Odin many a rich gift given.”
Source: The Heimskringla
“To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.”
“To offend is the original sin of the 21st century within the western hemisphere.”
“To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.”
Source: The Jessamy Bride: By F. Frankfort Moore
“To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.”
Source: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships
“To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.”
“To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.”
Source: Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience
“To offer our very selves to another in love is to place that sacred trust in their hands; hands that may falter, leaving us rejected, ridiculed, abandoned and ashamed. In that very moment of surrendering to love we become vulnerable, our hearts and needs exposed to someone who may not cherish the gift we offer.”
Source: Things My Father Taught Me About Love
“To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.”
Source: Unlearning the lie: sexism in school
“To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in”
“To offer your life in defense of another is a valiant, honorable way to die.”
Source: Eena, The Companionship of the Dragon's Soul
“To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.”
Source: EVEolution: Understanding Women - 8 Essential Truths That Work In Your Business & Life
“To often a leader defuses the situation by:
1. Determining the right answer primarily through logic reason and efficiency
2. Cutting off discussion and taking things off-line when people get too emotional
3. Managing strong personalities through one on one conversations
4. Listening to the loudest or the favorite voice the one who starts are usually the same as the leaders
5. Declaring oneself as the leader in forcing a direction”
Source: The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage
“To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence.”
“To old times, May they never come again...' 'Old time past and better times to come!”
Source: Count to a Trillion
“To Omicron, everyone is the enemy.”
“To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.”
“To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition