T Quotes
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“To tell them how to live is to prevent them from living.”
“To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.”
“To tell you the honest-to-God truth: without Scientology, I would be dead. So, I can personally highly recommend it.”
“To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.”
Source: The life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer
“To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.”
“To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!”
“To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“To tell you the truth, I'm something of an atheist.”
Source: The Last Continent
“To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything. I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mea way. In a curious way. it's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that da, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that. or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why. Especially since I know that if they went to another school, the person who had their heart broken would have had their heart broken by somebody else, so why does it have to be so personal? And if I went to another school, I would never have known Sam or Patrick or Mary Elizabeth or anyone except my family. (Pg 142)”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art' to another. 'Beautiful' and 'ugly' are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only 'kitsch' is not art - we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is 'kitsch'? If only I knew!”
“To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.”
“To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.”
“To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.”
“To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.”
“To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.”
“To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.”
“To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.”
“To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“To tell you the truth, I've never been really good at learning other people's stuff. I've been playing since I was 11, and I never took lessons. I kind of learned through hit and miss. I had the patience just because I loved guitar so much.”
“To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.”
“To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.”
“To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.”
“To tell you the Truth: It's better to give rather than to receive.”
“To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.”
“to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.”
“To tempt, and to be tempted, are things very nearly allied, and, in spite of the finest maxims of morality impressed upon the mind, whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of, and I have yet to learn how it is possible to prevent its being excited.”
“To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.”
“To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to him.”
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?”
Source: Hitchens vs Blair
“To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.”
“To test a man, determine how much it takes to make him lie.”
“To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves.”
“To test a man's ego, simply ask him a complicated question. A good person will never be afraid to admit they don't know the answer to something. And only when a man has fully dismantled his ego, can he begin to be truly good.”
“To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.”
“To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.”
Source: The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences
“To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.”
“To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.”
“To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.”
“To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.”
“To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.”
“To that friend who tells me he is bored because he cannot work, I answer that boredom is a higher state, and that we debase it by relating it to the notion of work.”
Source: Drawn and Quartered
“To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.”
“To that one soul reading this, I know you're tired. You're fed up. You're on the verge of snapping like an over-stressed rubber band. But guess what? There’s a badass strength within you, even when you feel weak. Keep fighting. You're tougher than you give yourself credit for, and this hard time is just a chapter, not the whole story. So, take a deep breath, channel your inner warrior, stand tall and keep pushing forward. You've got this, superstar!”
“to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.”
“To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and which is never truly there unless it comes, automatically and unthinkingly, straight from the heart.
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For anyone who had learned the social code, and Rastignac had absorbed it all in a flash, these words, that gesture, that look, that inflection in her voice, summed up all there was to know about the nature and the ways of men and women of her class. He was vividly aware of the iron hand underneath the velvet glove; the personality, and especially the self-centeredness, under the polished manners; the plain hard wood, under all the varnish. [...] Eugène had been entirely too quick to take this woman's word for her own kindness. Like all those who cannot help themselves, he had signed on the dotted line, accepting the delightful contract binding both benefactor and recipient, the very first clause of which makes clear that, as between noble souls, perfect equality must be forever maintained. Beneficience, which ties people together, is a heavenly passion, but a thoroughly misunderstood one, and quite as scarce as true love. Both stem from the lavish nature of great souls.”
Source: Père Goriot
“To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.”
Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles
“To that there is an answer.”
“To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.”
Source: Gravity Dreams
“To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.”
“To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.”