T Quotes
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“To the infinite, all finites are equal.”
Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
“To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.”
Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies
“To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.”
“To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution.”
“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality possessing attributes peculiar to the gods of never having to answer for their actions and never making a mistake. Their wishes must be humbly acceded to. The people may kill, burn, ravage, commit the most frightening cruelties, glorify their hero today and throw him into the gutter tomorrow, it is all the same; the politicians will not cease to vaunt the people's virtues and to bow to their every decision.”
Source: The Psychology of Revolution
“To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.”
“To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.”
“To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of the earth. They hated Rome and her device, arma et leges, with an inhuman hatred. True, Rome had leges, laws, like the Jews. But in their very resemblance lay their difference; for the Roman laws were merely the practical application of the arma, the arms...but without the arms, the leges were empty formulae.”
“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys.... Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.”
“To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.”
“To the knights of faith nobody believes.”
Source: Circling: 1978-1987
“To the known, your sacrifice is a duty; to a stranger, your smile is a gift.”
“To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him.”
“To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.”
“To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.”
“To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.”
Source: Reading Music: Selected Essays
“To the lass,” he said, raising his glass. “May her tongue stay sharp, her loyalty run deep, and her enemies die choking on her name.”
Source: Eyes on You a Mafia Romance
“To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am finished." Instead of pitying yourself, you should be thinking, "O ye who are left on this desolate shore still to mourn and deplore, it is I who pity you." Death will not give you any trouble if you have a clear conscience; and if you go with this thought: "Lord, I am in Thy hands."”
“To the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil.”
Source: Great Expectations
“To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.”
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham
“To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished.”
Source: Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel
“To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.”
“To the law enforcement officials I say, "uphold not law, but justice, for when you uphold law, you need to explain yourself to your superiors, but when you uphold justice, you do not need to explain your actions to anyone, for your very actions will be the testament of justice".”
Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
“To the laws and conventions of man
I offer no word –
Only tears.”
“To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.”
“To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate and sharpen your critical views, both of others and of yourselves.”
“To the left, Pigpen, Man O'War and Dust are laughing in a booth with my brother, Brandon.”
Source: Long Way Home
“To the left, immigration is anybody who gets in, anybody who wants to come gets in. And that's not what immigration is. That's illegal immigration. And that's what is opposed.”
“To the liberal class, every big economic problem is really an education problem, a failure by the losers to learn the right skills and get the credentials everyone knows you’ll need in the society of the future.”
Source: Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
“To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“To The Lilies among Thistles, Just like a lily, a beautiful life does not just happen overnight. It is built daily through informed choices, commitment, faith and prayer. The journey towards becoming A Proverbs 31 Lady cannot therefore be taken lightly. It is a difficult, challenging journey filled with both laughter and tears, but a fulfilling one as you will soon find out. If you commit to becoming this woman just one day at a time, it will change not just your relationships but also your whole life.Consider it as a challenge, from one virtuous woman to the other.”
Source: The Proverbs 31 Lady: Unveiling Her Timetested Success Secrets Before Saying I Do
“To the loner, loneliness is a treasure that cannot be traded, even for the nicest of companies.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
“To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.”
“To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most of the useful and respectable, qualifications. The character in which both the one and the other should be united and harmonised would seem to constitute the most perfect idea of human nature.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.”
Source: Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal
“To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.”
“To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.”
“To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.”
Source: Healology
“To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.”
Source: The Devil's Notebook
“To the making of many books there is no end."
Ecclesiastes 12:12”
“To the makying of bookes of gardenyng there is noe ende.”
“To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.”
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
“To the man of faith, there is always a future.”
“To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is not opportunity.”
“To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear those glittering mirages called 'philosophical systems'; with bewitching deceptive power they show the solution of all enigmas and the freshest draught of the true water of life to be near at hand; his heart rejoices, and it seems to the weary traveller that his lips already touch the goal of all the perseverance and sorrows of the scientific life... Other natures again, may well grow exceedingly ill-humoured and curse the salty taste which these apparitions leave behind in the mouth and from which arises a raging thirst – without one having been brought so much as a step nearer to any kind of spring.”
“To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.”
Source: The Wisdom of Goethe
“To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.”
“To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.”
Source: The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition