T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.”
Source: The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper
“To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.”
“To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.”
Source: The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems
“To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.”
“To paraphrase a Latino saying (which is possibly ultimately from the Arabic traditiom), MI rasa is supposed raza." So Living in Spanglish is not a racial Istanbul text.”
Source: Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America
“To paraphrase Descartes again: "I think; therefore I have no access to the level where I sum.”
Source: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“To paraphrase Hannah Arendt—as portrayed in the recently released movie of the same name—the Nazi war criminal’s actions stemmed from her well-known phrase “banality of evil,” not as a result of mental illness but as a result of a lack of thinking. Their greatest error was delegating the process of thinking and decision-making to their higher ups. In Rudolf Höss’s case, this would have been his superiors, particularly Heinrich Himmler.
To many this conclusion is troubling, for it suggests that if everyday, “normal,” sane men and women are capable of evil, then the atrocities perpetrated during the Holocaust and other genocides could be repeated today and into the future.
Yet, this is exactly the lesson we must learn from the war criminals at Nuremberg. We must be ever wary of those who do not take responsibility for their actions. And we ourselves must be extra vigilant, particularly in this day of accelerated technological power, heightened state surveillance, and global corporate reach, that we do not delegate our thinking to others.”
“To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's happening all at once as the world's capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we'll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone's door anymore. And we don't have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We'll be Greece before these D.C. politicians' false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.”
“To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.”
“To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism, the other specter Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-specter. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don't have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.”
“To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.”
“To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.”
Source: Sign of the unicorn. The hand of Oberon. The Courts of Chaos
“To paraphrase Paul from the New Testament, he has a great soliloquy about love, where he's basically saying, if I've figured out the secrets of the universe but I don't have love, figuring out the secrets of universe means nothing.”
“To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.”
Source: Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit
“To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.”
“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“To paraphrase Shakespeare’s Polonius, you sometimes have to get your hands a little dirty to set things straight.”
Source: A Very Good Life
“To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.”
“To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?”
Source: Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional
“To paraphrase the famous Walt saying, Cast Members are there to work so Guests can play.”
Source: The Disneyland Book of Secrets 2014 - Disneyland: One Local's Unauthorized, Rapturous and Indispensable Guide to the Happiest Place on Earth
“To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.”
“To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like.”
“To paraphrase the late management thinker and writer, Peter Drucker, thinking is hard work, which is why so few people (including actually senior managers) do it. Once there is some "conventional," seemingly-reasonable story, people just accept it and don't ask, "is this actually true? Is it consistent with the data?" And this extends to the highest reaches of organizational life.”
“To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent of any change is knowing how; but 80 percent is knowing why. If we gather a set of strong enough reasons to change, we can change in a minute something we've failed to change for years.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.”
“To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.”
“To paraphrase Woody Allen in Annie Hall, love was too weak a word for what I felt for that tiny crying creature who had my eyes, my mouth, my hair. I lurved my daughter, my Ava. I looved her. I lurfed her.”
Source: The Breakup Club
“To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.”
“To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson
“To Parents
Teach your child what they should know if not,
their friends will teach them with wrong information.
They will suffer the consequences of not
knowing which results to hard life, suffering and
being bad people with no morlas in life.”
“To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.”
“To parents who find a child's disclosure about sexual or gender identity challenging, I always urge what I'd call "moderated" honesty. If you can't say "I love you," then say something like, "I'm going to need some time to digest this news." Buy time this way. And then think.”
“To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - 'Farewell”
“To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell”
Source: The Coral Island: Illustrated
“To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love.”
“To participate in the Pledge of Allegiance would be a public declaration of support to a corrupt government.”
“To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.”
“To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.”
“To pass from understanding less to understanding more by your own intellectual effort in reading is something like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.”
Source: Soul of my soul: reflections from a life of prayer
“To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.”
Source: The English Novel
“To pass yourself off as a terrorist was no easy task. The pressure was continuous, day and night, twenty-four hours a day. You were operating in a world where a slip of the tongue, a wrong item of clothing could cost you and your team their lives.”
Source: Skuzapo: The untold story
“To pastors and leaders who serve faithfully, who work to teach and shepherd those who are in your church or religious institution: thank you for all you do.”
“To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“To pause and think about one’s actions, to consider the reasons and causes, to carefully weigh the consequences—this seems an unusual practice for humans. I cannot help but weep over the mountain of grief that might have been avoided if only individuals had paused to think.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“To pause is not the same as to stop”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“To pause long enough at the border of the mind is to feel the faint pull of the Infinite, the whisper that all our searching, all our longing, rests in the Almighty. ... In those moments, turning upward is not just an act of devotion, but of surrender. It is the acknowledgment that we are not the ultimate authors of our story, that there is a hand beyond ours guiding, shaping, holding”
“To pay a price in advance, to the unjust, a price to prevent advances against your physical integrity -- that is to compromise your dignity. And dignity compromised is no longer dignity.”
Source: The Instructions
“To pay attention is to see the remarkable. In many ways far too real, it is to see ourselves in the ordinary, the daily, the mundane miracles of Creation.”
Source: Wild Like Flowers
“To pay attention to the actual core of the movement - that would be pretty hard. Can you concentrate for example on either the policy issues or the creation of functioning democratic communities of mutual support and say, well, that's what's lacking in our country that's why we don't have a functioning democracy - a community of real participation. That's really important. And that always gets smashed.”