T Quotes
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“To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.”
“To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”
Source: On photography
“To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.”
“To take a specific example, a researcher in the Journal of Traumatic Stress interviewed 129 women with documented histories of child sexual abuse that occurred between the ages of 10 months and 12 years. Of those, 38 percent had forgotten the abuse. Of the remaining women who remembered, 16 percent reported that they had for a period of time forgotten but subsequently recovered their memories. [46] Thus, during that time a "false negative" recorded for those women. These are the sort of distinctions for which Elaine Showalter in Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media fails to account.”
Source: Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust
“To take a stand based on the fickleness of the culture verses the weight of principle is to believe that part of standing up is falling off a cliff.”
“To take a thought, to gingerly package it in a handful of words, and then to deliver it to a person for whom both the thought and the words within which it came are life-saving is writing at its best. Anything else is scribbling at its worst.”
“To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available.”
“To take an analogy from botany, she imagined a child as an unopened flower; a parent had a responsability to provide light and water, but also to stand back and watch. 'He can do anything he wants', she said, 'as long as he's happy and cool.' In contrast, I saw no reason why the flower should not be bracketed to a bamboo stick, pruned, exposed to artificial light; if it made for a stronger, more resilient plant, why not? (pag. 337)”
Source: Us
“To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.”
Source: The Lyric: An Essay
“To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.”
“To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again.”
“To take any return that I might derive from my investment in the life of another, and to immediately invest that return back into that life is to turn an investment from a mere contribution that sustains a life, to an act of selfless humanity that transforms a life.”
“To take arms against a sea of troubles.”
“To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.”
“To take away a woman's ability to walk is one thing; it's quite another to take away her ability to speak. -(Lady Meesha) I Am Lady Sasha -The Journey From Slave to Slave-”
“To Take Back a Life
First, you must learn desire. Hold its
fruit in your hands. Unmarry it from
the hunger to be held, to be wanted, to
be called from the streets like the family
dog. You are not a 'good girl.' You are not
somebody's otherness. This is not a dress
rehearsal before a better kind of life.
Pick up your heavy burdens and leave
them at the gate. I will hold the door for
you.”
Source: What Kind of Woman: Poems
“To take back your power in any given situation, focus on the things you can control. The thoughts you choose to think is usually the best place to start.”
“To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist.”
“To take care of the world seemed, finally, a privilege rather than a burden. The Riddler had led them to life's greatest victory. They had found a home.”
Source: Storm Seed
“To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.”
“To take choice out of pregnancy is to take the mother out of motherhood.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“To take Christianity as an example, biblical scholars, using a sophisticated hermeneutics, extract a 'universal' Pauline theology from the social context of Paul's letters that presumed slavery, the subjugation of women, etc. Pauline statements that seem to support this social order are reinterpreted in light of passages that are deemed to reflect more universal values”
“To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.”
Source: The Eternal Wonder
“To take estrogen or not to take estrogen:
That is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler to abstain and suffer
The sweat and puddles of outrageous flashes
Or to take arms against a sea of mood swings,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; at first the studies say 'twill end
The heart attacks and thousand bouts of bloat
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a true confusion -
For then they say 'twill cause us all to die
Perchance from breast cancer; ay, there's the rub;
For who can dream or even sleep while worrying about
What doctors might be saying come next week?”
“To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.”
Source: Tathea
“To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
Source: The Life and Writings of ...
“To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.”
“To take full advantage of the potential in e-business, leaders must lead differently, and people must work together differently. Let's call this new way of working e-culture-the human side of the global information era, the heart and soul of the new economy.”
“To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God.”
Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ
“To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn is but to change your opinion.”
“To take life is easy, but to give life is what makes one human.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.”
Source: The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change
“To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.”
“To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.”
“To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.”
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
“To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually be a place that was welcoming for everyone that was here, including dealing with the history of slavery and the kind of oppression this country is based on, that's an amazing moment to begin to find your own political ideals.”
“To take one example, I mean, the whole issue of bathrooms and gender - in this particular election, when the stakes were so high, the fact that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital on this issue that frightened people. People were misinformed about certain things, but it was really a question of where young people would be going to the bathroom and where they would be in lockers.”
“To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.”
“To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.”
“To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.”
“To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.”
“To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.”
Source: The Untouchable
“To take pressure off myself, I realize how fortunate I am to be playing a sport for a living. If I take that mentality onto the court, there shouldn't be any pressure because I'm already fortunate to do what I do.”
“To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.”
Source: The Rest of My Life
“To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.”
“To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.”
“To take responsibility is painful. It is hard to admit that the reason for your situation is you.
Admitting this often fuels shame. And shame is a dirty lover. Shame says, “See - I told you you weren’t good enough. You should feel horrible about this.”
And when I embrace shame - an interesting thing happens. I feel bad. And then we are driven to the same wrong behaviors - porn - overeating - drugs - booze - anger - because hey make you feel better - until the shame kicks in. Getting caught in that cycle is destructive.”