T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, it may be defined an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed.”
Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages
“To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.”
“To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.”
“To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost”
Source: War, Community, and Social Change: Collective Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia
“To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.”
“To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.”
“To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.”
Source: Communal Unity
“To retaliate mockery is to become mockery.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.”
Source: Lovingkindness
“To retire at the top of the game, that's always been my aim.”
“To retire by the age of 35 was my goal. I wasn't sure how I was going to get there though. I knew I would end up owning my own business someday, so I figured my challenge was to learn as much as anyone about all businesses. I believed that every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. I spent as much time as I could, learning and reading everything about business I could get my hands on. I used to go into the library for hours and hours reading business books and magazines.”
“To retire is the beginning of death.”
“To retire is to begin to die.”
“To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.”
“To retreat in my aloneness,
my beautifully peaceful garden,
to find shade under my heart,
in the solitude of abundance,
without you in sight.”
Source: Baghdad Nights
“To retreat is to walk alone. To explore is to walk with generations, dead and alive, in an act of love.”
Source: Dark Nights: Metal
“To retrieve the ill consequences of a foolish conduct, and by struggling manfully with distress to subdue it, is one of the noblest efforts of wisdom and virtue. Whoever, therefore, calls such a man fortunate, is guilty of no less impropriety in speech than he would be who should call the statuary or the poet fortunate who carved a Venus or who writ an Iliad.”
“To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.”
Source: Infernal Devices
“To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.”
Source: Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life
“To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.”
“To return to Gibbon for a moment. The great epitaph for the fallen soldiers on the last page of Sunset Song is more than effective; in an early chapter it might have roused sneers. But Gibbon himself would not have written it there.”
Source: Jabberwock: Edinburgh University Review, Volume 3, No. 2: Summer 1950
“To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.”
“To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.”
Source: Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
“To return to the city of one's birth always felt like retreat.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“To return to the Might God is to truly rely on Him.”
“To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.”
“To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.”
Source: Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
“To revere the righteous God is to Obey his commands.”
“To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the corruption of morals and behavior which results.”
“To reverse destiny, stand in a field with a knife pointed in the direction of the wind.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”
“To review ones store is to mow twice.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“To revive a man is no slight thing.”
“To revive sorrow is cruel.”
“To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.”
“To revolt on behalf of an ignorant people, is like to set yourself on fire in order to light the way for a blind man!”
“To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.”
“To rewrite history is a deliberate action perpetrated by those who are too driven by their fear and too captivated by their greed to acknowledge that the flaws in their agenda won't stand up to the truth of history. And to arrogantly declare that their revision of history is anything less is to have their own history systematically destroyed in a manner forever beyond revision.”
“To rid oneself of misery every human being needs to align thoughts, speech, and action and that alignment is music.”
“To rid the grass of weed, to get
The whole root,
Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind
And desire - to make clean, make pure.
The weed, tough
As the rock it leaps against,
Unless plucked to the last
Live fiber
Will plunge up through dark again.
The weed also has the desire
To make clean,
Make pure, there against the rock.”
Source: Zen, poetry, the art of Lucien Stryk
“To rid the world of aggression and contention is the purpose of Aikido”
“To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.”
“To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?”
“To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)
“To ride the waves of the sea in swell is to let go of the shores known all along.....”
“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
“To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.
[Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]”