T Quotes
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“To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.”
Source: Far From the Madding Crowd
“To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.”
Source: A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations
“To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.”
“To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.”
“To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.”
“To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.”
“To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.”
“To philosophise is to learn how to die.”
“To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.”
“To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.”
“To philosophize is to doubt.”
Source: Complete Essays
“To philosophize is to learn to die.”
Source: The Essays
“To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.”
Source: An essay on Christian philosophy
“To philosophize means to make vivid.”
“To philosophize truth is unphilosophy.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.”
Source: The spectre of Hegel: early writings
“To Phoebe's relief, the gathering in the drawing room turned out to be far less intimidating than she'd expected. Her parents and Seraphina were there to keep her company, as were Lord and Lady Westcliff, whom she and her siblings had always called "Uncle Marcus" and "Aunt Lillian."
Lord Westcliff's hunting estate, Stony Cross Park, was located in Hampshire, not far from Eversby Priory. The earl and his wife, who had originally been an American heiress from New York, had raised three sons and three daughters. Although Aunt Lillian had teasingly invited Phoebe to have her pick of any of her robust and handsome sons, Phoebe had answered- quite truthfully- that such a union would have felt positively incestuous. The Marsdens and the Challons had spent too many family holidays together and had known each other for too long for any romantic sparks to fly between their offspring.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.”
Source: Some Aesthetic Decisions: The Photographs of Judy Fiskin
“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.”
Source: On photography
“To photograph is to confer importance.”
Source: On photography
“To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.”
Source: Waiting for Robert Capa
“To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.
You take them off their path, away from their plans, from their everyday routine. Sometimes it's also forcing them to die.”
Source: Waiting for Robert Capa
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.”
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
Source: On photography
“To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.”
“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.”
Source: Ansel Adams: photographs
“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.”
Source: Ansel Adams, photographs 1923-1963
“To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.”
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
“To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.”
Source: Robert Motherwell on paper: drawings, prints, collages
“To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.”
“To picture him, sitting at his desk at home, scribbling away with a pen and paper, endears him to me so completely. It gives me shivers. Currents of electricity from my scalp down to my toes.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“To picture Roosevelt as a man at this time in his life - he felt he was old. He was 53 years old, feeling lonely and irrelevant. And all of a sudden, he takes on this campaign, and it becomes a crusade for popular government. And he ultimately goes on fire in the campaign, but he discovers he's up against all the old machine tactics that he used to use himself, and he has to let the public get involved. And he energizes the public through the most extreme kind of rhetoric, which truly brings him into the streets and onto his side.”
“To picture the desert as a place where trees are capable of growing is an act of faith.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.”
“To Pierre," said Mr. Buckmaster, "the Communists are of the Right. The far Right. He refers to them as 'those goddamned Bourbons.' Pierre is an anarchist. That's why he's so happy in his shoplifting--he feels it helps undermine the state.”
Source: A Garden of Cucumbers
“To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.”
“To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]”
“To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials
“To pin the future of blockchain on any one currency, let alone the initial one, means limiting blockchain potential; a potential that once scaled promises to have an unequaled impact on our day-to-day lives. And that really is the stuff of stars.”
“To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.”
“To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is no sin or negative energy. There is only compassion, learning, and unconditional love and forgiveness. Remind yourself and those around you of this fact. In the light of God, everything is healed and seen to be perfect.”
Source: Weight Loss for the Mind
“To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”
Source: Lectures on Education
“To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.”
“To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill ... makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.”
Source: Words of Washington
“To place any dependence upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff ... If I was called upon to declare upon Oath , whether the Militia have been most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole; I should subscribe to the latter.”
“To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.”
Source: Words of Washington
“To place anything above God, value anything above God, and take pleasure in anything above God is sin - He is to the highest degree in which we are to be fulfilled.”
“To place blame is to attempt to give something to someone that I can’t give them.”
“To place Jesus Christ in the class of mystics is an insult to the Highest.”
“To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.”