T Quotes
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“To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.”
“To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.”
Source: The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.”
Source: The Painters of Modern Life
“To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.”
Source: The Pact: A Love Story
“To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as "the loving brother of all of us," as one who "died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.”
“To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.”
“To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“To say we know a person is to write that person off.”
Source: Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
“To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.”
Source: A journal of the life, gospel labors and Christian experiences, of that faithful minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman: to which are added, his last epistle, and other writings
“To say we were 'in love', that vague weakened phrase, cannot express it. We loved each other, we lived in each other, through each other, by each other. We were each other. Why was it such pure unadulterated pain?”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.”
“To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless.”
“To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.”
“To say what your disguise is would be foolish.”
“To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.”
“To say yes is to die
A lot or a little.”
Source: Selected poems
“To say yes to life is not only meaningful under all circumstances--because life itself is--but it is also possible under all circumstances.”
Source: Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
“To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“To say yes wholeheartedly is to be religious. It has nothing to do with a belief in a god. All that you need is wholehearted yes. All that you need is a total yes, so that not even a small fragment of no remains in the heart.
When you say a total yes, you become a light unto yourself. And this light starts to guide you on your path. Then no outer guide is needed.
When you say a total yes, you don't hold back. The total yes means to flow with life and to be available to life. The total yes means that non-resistance is all that is needed. We have to cooperate with life.
Our mind is very afraid of saying yes. The mind naturally resists saying yes. The mind lives through saying no. We have lived
with saying no for so many lives that we have forgotten the possibility of saying yes.
We have forgotten the possibility of saying yes to ourselves, to say to others and to say yes to all that is.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.”
Source: Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette
“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
“To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.”
Source: Elegy: poems
“To say you're going to wiggle your nose and that is going to happen, it won't happen. If you look at major companies who are doing wonderful things, wonderful things and they give their portfolio billions of dollars that they make and they give away $10 million or so, when you start putting the percentages there, what we are doing is significant.”
“To say your mindset is critical to your success is a gross understatement—it is the underpinning!”
Source: The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
“To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.”
“To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters in life; the rest is men and women, imagined loves and factitious vanities, the wiles of our digestion and forgetfulness, people squirming — like worms when a rock is lifted — under the huge abstract boulder of the meaningless blue sky.”
“To say, "It used to be better," nobody can say, "Well, no it wasn't." It's like telling a story that is self-aggrandizing about someone who has passed away, when they can't tell the other side of the story.”
“To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.”
“To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.”
“To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.”
Source: Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress [1853-1854].
“To say, “I've been converted and that's that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.”
“To saya man is fallen in love,or that he is deeply in love,or up to the ears in love,and sometimes even over head and ears in it,carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:this is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship,I hold to be damnable and heretical:and so much for that. Let love therefore be what it will,my uncleToby fell into it.”
“To scale the highest mountains, find your inner strength, and do so in silence, then watch wonders happen.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.”
Source: Gone With The Wind: American Literature
“To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“To schedule life is to miss it.”
“To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely one of nine planets circling one of billions of stars. From biology we learned that humans were not specially created by God but evolved along with tens of millions of other species.”
“To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.”
Source: Dark Age Ahead
“To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.”
Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
“To scream is to believe there is someone out there who cares.”
Source: Hazelthorn
“To screw or not to screw this world, that's the question.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.”
“To search for an indefinable something in a world rife with photocopies is to try the unknown!”
“To search for the old is to understand the new.”
“To search for the path that needs your wholeness, to seek that which needs your fullness, is to rise above what is broken and sense the unbroken self, the still space where God resides. That is the highest seeking.”
“To search for the truth is to seek the true words.”
“To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.”
Source: Self-Analysis
“To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.”
“To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.”
“To search is more blessed than to find, Gissler thinks.”
Source: Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will