T Quotes
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“To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?”
Source: Fugitive Pieces
“To survive, we cling to all we know know and understand and we label it reality.”
“To survive you have to withstand the changes in the business. This business has gone through so many changes since I was young and now it is on to something else. It is all weird today, for me, because I am from the old times. You just have to keep adapting. Isn't that Darwinism? The creature that adapts to its environment survives.”
“To survive you must find yourself then it won't matter where you are.”
Source: Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
“To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the will to survive. That allows you to quickly adapt to the situation and dedicate yourself to the present moment rather than wallow in denial.”
“To survive, you must teach the mind to interpret the signals that the sickened body sends to it.”
“To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.”
“To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth's bodies of water, and the planet's atmosphere are all under threat.”
“To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.”
“To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.”
“To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.”
“To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.”
“To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.”
Source: future shock
“To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.”
“To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves.”
Source: Hopping
“To survive, you must tell stories.”
Source: The Island of the Day Before
“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.”
Source: Children of Dune
“To sustain a career in show business, you have to have a certain amount of delusion, because it's such an insane way to make a living. The idea that you're going to say, "Oh, I think I deserve to be paid attention to, and people should listen to what I have to say, and everybody should look at me," that's a little bit delusional in a way.”
“To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together.”
“To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.”
“To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.”
“To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'.”
Source: The passionate life: stages of loving
“To sustain our leaders is a privilege.”
“To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge”
“To sustain the value of education, students should be respected as much as the teachers.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.”
“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”
“To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.”
“To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.”
Source: Healology
“To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.”
“To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
[Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]”
“To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past.
The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more
you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy.”
“To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy.”
“To swing or not to swing? Swing.”
“To switch effectively from defense to social engagement strategies, the nervous system must do two things: (1) assess risk, and (2) if the environment looks safe, inhibit the primitive defensive reactions to fight, flight or freeze.”
Source: The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation
“To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.”
“To switch right into creativity usually takes a bit of time, and this came up right at that juncture where I thought, okay, here's an opportunity to work with somebody I really respect in a new medium.”
“To Sycamores
I’m sick of Love; O let me lie
Under your shades, to sleep or die!
Either is welcome; so I have
Or here my Bed, or here my Grave.
Why do you sigh, and sob, and keep
Time with the tears, that I do weep?
Say, have ye sence, or do you prove
What Crucifixions are in Love?
I know ye do; and that’s the why,
You sigh for Love, as well as I”
Source: Selected poems
“To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live”
“To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.”
“To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.”
“To take a beating and then forget. To take yet another beating and forget is called ‘Moha’ (Illusory attachment)!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind”
Source: Emma: By Jane Austen
“To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.”
“To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.”
“To take a group of people captive means those who take them captive are themselves also in captivity.”
“To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.”
Source: Blossoms of Friendship
“To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.”