T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To the stars who listen and the dreams that are answered”
“TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.”
Source: A Writer's World
“To the stimulus of responsibility, one's immediate response may, unexpectedly be, fear. Yet, fear imparts a strong reason for progress. Had it not been for mankind's fear of darkness and ignorance, our world shall never have been encased in light and knowledge, as it is today.”
“To the Stoics, a good life meant living in accordance with nature, both universal nature – accepting the world for what it is, not resisting it because we think it should be different – and our own nature as human beings.”
Source: The Stoic Handbook: A Practical Guide for Modern Life
“To the striped hyenas( Cowardly Scavengers) of the jungle, you get fleas with the dog's you lay down with. "
By Bonnie Zackson Koury”
“To the strong there is also no such thing as determinism as the determinists understand it. Environment and circumambient conditions determine nothing in the man of strong will. To him the only thing that counts, the only thing he hears is his inner voice, the voice of his ruling instinct. The most environment can do is to provide this ruling instinct with an anvil on which to beat out its owner's destiny, and beneath the racket and din of its titanic action all the voices of stimuli from outside, all the determining suggestions and hints from environment, sink into an insignificant and inaudible whisper, not even heard, much less heeded, therefore, by the strong man. That is why the passion of a strong man may be permanent, that is why the actions of a strong man may be consistent; because they depend upon an inner constitution of things which cannot change, and not upon environment which can and does change. If the strong man is acquainted with determinism at all, it is a determinism from within, a voice from his own breast; but this is not the determinism of the determinists.”
“To the strong there is no such thing as free will; for free will implies an alternative, and the strong man has no alternative. His ruling instinct leaves him no alternative, allows him no hesitation or vacillation. Strength of will is the absence of free will. If to the weak man strong will appears to have an alternative, it is a total misapprehension on his part.”
“To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.”
“To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king.”
Source: Almost Perfect
“To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.”
Source: A Time In Rome
“To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.”
“To the surgeon his scalpel, to the gravedigger his pick and shovel, to the analyst his dream books, to the fool his dunce cap. As for me, I have a bellyache.”
Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
“To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.”
Source: Like Water For Chocolate
“To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.”
Source: The Way of Zen
“To the Tax Office: All is over between us. Please don't attempt to communicate with me again.”
“To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.”
“To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“To the terror of the lone lake.
Yet that terror was not fright,
But a tremulous delight--
A feeling not the jewelled mine
Could teach or bribe me to define--
Nor Love-- although the Love were thine.”
Source: The Lake
“To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.”
“To the thoughts that I live,
To the guilt within
There are endless cries
Wandering alone in the skies”
“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.”
Source: Rob Roy
“To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.”
Source: The Guide of the Perplexed
“To the trolls, my work is about people, leadership and change. If the scribe reminds me of Churchill, dog and stone, then I have already wasted time”
“To the trolls on the internet, I want to say: Get your head out of the computer. Go outside and walk around. Look at the people walking next to you. Look at your friends' friends and who they're interacting with. And just understand this is the world we live in. It's okay to like it.”
“To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.”
Source: Sammlung
“To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of opportunity means nothing. The TDs always think numbers are for everyone else and don't involve them.”
Source: Directing Your Directing Career
“To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.”
Source: The Teaching of Reverence for Life
“To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.”
“to the two men who yelled: “that’s a man in a dress! hey
everyone that’s a man in a dress!” while pointing at me
on sixth avenue:
i wanted to turn around and point back, shout:
“hey everyone that’s an insecure man, that’s an insecure
man! that’s an insecure man!”
“To the tyrants of today and to the tyrants of tomorrow deliver this warning, passed down from ages long ago. Beware the eagle, the lion, and the bear. For the valiant will resist you.
LOOK. EVEN NOW ... THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU!”
Source: Gurzil
“To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.”
“To the Ultimate Inspiration of the Cosmic Code, The Source of Creativity and Nuanced Realization The Divine Mentor and Channeling Force
Of Awakening and Transformation”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.”
“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.”
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
“To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.”
“To the Unknown, I chose to go,
not because it would be easy,
but because the challenge made me feel alive.
I knew it would help shape this beautiful life.
Though the journey is long, together we soar.
Through stars, my friends, I feel stronger than before.
Our mission might be uncertain, it might not even succeed,
but with you, dear friends, I trust wherever it will lead.”
Source: Luna Heartstrong & the Whimsical Wormhole
“To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.”
Source: Vaughan Williams on Music
“To the unspoiled, even a snikebite is a loving kiss. But to the spoiled even a loving kiss is a snake bite.”
Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
“To the untrained eye, Ben had nothing, at least by the bizarre rules that governed high school. But really, Ben was one of the few who wasn't pretending, one of the few who was free.”
Source: Something Like Winter
“To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Theodore Dreiser (Illustrated)
“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false--it is impalpable--it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter Thrift Study Edition
“To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men.”
Source: The Soul of the Indian
“To the upcoming poets and writers of our world: keep on writing each day of your life. One day you will feel proud of yourself for not giving up!”
“To the user, the interface is the product.”
“To the valiant actions speak alone.”
Source: The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance
“To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.”
“To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.”