T Quotes
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“To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.”
“To The Veterans of the United States of America
Thank you, for the cost you paid for our freedom, thank you for the freedom to live in safety and pursue happiness, for freedom of speech (thus my book), and for all the freedoms that we daily take for granted.”
Source: Torn From the Inside Out
“To the victor belong the responsibilities.”
“To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.”
“To the Victorian public, proud of their national tradition of liberal policing and of Britain as a beacon of tolerance, the very idea of a political police carried the stigma of foreign despotism. In the nineteenth century, Britain’s elected politicians would never have dared venture anything resembling the kind of legislation that recent years have seen passed with barely a blink of the public eye, to threaten civil liberties that have for generations been taken for granted. That changing times demanding changing laws is hard to dispute, but if new powers are to be conceded it is essential that we be ever more vigilant in guarding against their abuse. Likewise, if our political leaders are allowed blithely to insist that ‘history’ should be their judge, then we should at least be in no doubt that the historians of the future will have access to the material necessary to hold those leaders to account for any deceptions they may have practiced. Histories bearing an official sanction, of the kind that appeal to today’s security services, are not a satisfactory alternative. This book is a pebble cast on the other side of the scales.”
Source: The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
“To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he is to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.”
“To the voices in our heads that tell us we aren't good enough: do be quiet.”
Source: All That She Can See
“To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“To The Warmongers
I'm back again from hell
With loathsome thoughts to sell;
secrets of death to tell;
And horrors from the abyss.
Young faces bleared with blood
sucked down into the mud,
You shall hear things like this,
Till the tormented slain
Crawl round and once again,
With limbs that twist awry
Moan out their brutish pain,
As the fighters pass them by.
For you our battles shine
With triumph half-divine;
And the glory of the dead
Kindles in each proud eye.
But a curse is on my head,
That shall not be unsaid,
And the wounds in my heart are red,
For I have watched them die.”
Source: The War Poems
“To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love. They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence, or by rejection. They know that – behind the icy mask people wear – there is a heart of fire. That is why the warriors risk more than others. They tirelessly seek love – even if this means hearing, many times over, the word ‘no’, returning home defeated, feeling rejected in body and soul. Warriors don’t allow themselves to be discouraged. Without love, live has no meaning.”
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next adventure.”
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
Source: Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.”
“To the white man the elephant had long meant merely ivory, and to the black man it always meant merely meat — the most abundant quantity of meat that a lucky hit with the assagai could procure for him. The idea of the 'beauty' of the elephant, of the 'nobility' of the elephant, was the idea of a man who had had enough to eat, a man of restaurants and of two meals a day and of museums of abstract art — an idea typical of a decadent society that takes refuge in abstractions from the ugly social realities it is incapable of facing, and makes itself drunk on vague and twilight notions of the beautiful, of the noble, of the fraternal, simply because the purely poetic attitude is the only one which history allows it to adopt. Bourgeois intellectuals insisted that a society on the march and in full spate should encumber itself with elephants simply because in that way they themselves hoped to escape destruction. They knew that they were just as anachronistic and cumbersome as these prehistoric animals; it was just a way of claiming mercy for themselves, of asking to be spared. Morel was typical of them.
But to human beings in Africa, the elephant’s only beauty was the weight of his meat, and as for human dignity, that was first and foremost a full belly. Perhaps, when the African does have his belly full, perhaps then he too will take an interest in the beauty of the elephant and will in general give himself up to agreeable meditations on the splendors of nature. For the moment, nature spoke to him of splitting the elephant’s belly open and plunging his teeth into it and eating, eating till he dropped, because he did not know where the next morsel would come from.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.”
“To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.”
“To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.”
“To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.”
Source: What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership
“To the winter forest
And nowhere to go
This girl runs
From all she knows
The pressure rises to the top
The pressure rises (it won't stop)
They want your body
They want your soul
They want fake smiles
That's rock and roll
The wolves surrond you
A fever dream
The wolves surrond you
So start the scream
Howl, into the night,
Howl, until the light,
Howl, your turn to fight,
Howl, just make it right
Howl howl howl howl
(Motherfucker)
You can't fight fo ever
You have to comply
If your life isn't working
You have to ask why
Remember
When we were young enough
Not to fear tomorrow
Or mourn yesterday
And we were just
Us
And time was just
Now
And we were in
Life
Not rising through
Like arms in a sleeve
Because we had time
We had time to breathe
The bad times are here
The bad times have come
but life can't be over
When it hasn't begun
The lake shines and the water's cold
All that glitters can turn to gold
Silence the music to improve the tune
Stop the fake smiles and howl at the moon
Howl, into the night,
Howl, until the light,
Howl, your turn to fight,
Howl, just make it right
Howl howl howl howl”
Source: The Midnight Library
“To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”
“To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.”
“To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“To the wizard death is merely a belief.”
Source: The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life
“To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.”
“To the women
Who motivate other women
To feel their best
And go for the best,
Have nothing but stronger love
And support back.
It’s a sacred circle.”
“To the wonders of all things, we fall and then we are reborn”
“To the worker, God himself lends aid.”
“To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings which no amount of money could buy - health and happiness and inner peace.”
“To the world—
lover is a fool.
To the lover—
world is deaf and blind.
Only if you could—
take a sip of his yearning.
Your soul would—
rise, hang—
and burn like crazy.”
“To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents.
To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world.”
“To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world
The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.”
“To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.”
“To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.”
“To the world's most perfect woman. It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error.”
“To the world, you are America.”
“To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.”
Source: Echoes of the Orient: The Writings of William Quan Judge
“To the wounded stranger I am ointment, but to the inhuman vermin I am volcano.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance,
To the future in the distance,
Give yourselves.”
“To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.”
“To the young couples, go build your marriage and family the way you want but always make your creator the central pillar of the structure you establish”
“To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.”
“To the young members of the Church, I promise that if you will listen, you will feel the Spirit well up within you. The Lord will tell you what He wants you to do with your life.”
“To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.”
“To the young queer girls - your love is going to save the world.”
Source: Fable for the End of the World
“To the young woman I say, This is the moment in your life when he who is wooing you will be at his kindest. And if you do not see kindness in the man you are dating, beware! For the partnership you are looking for will be nourished and nurtured only on the basis of a love that is not arrogant or prideful, but kind.”
Source: I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah
“To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.”
Source: Up the Down Staircase
“To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!”