T Quotes
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“To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.”
“To think of losing is to lose already.”
Source: Letters
“To think of Louise in her own right, not as my lover, not as my grief”
Source: Written On The Body
“To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.”
“To think of our greatest anxiety as an insignificant event, not only in the life of the universe but also in the life of our own soul, is the beginning of wisdom. To think this way right in the midst of our anxiety is the height of wisdom. While we're actually suffering, our human pain seems infinite. But human pain isn't infinite, because nothing human is infinite, and our pain has no value beyond its being a pain we feel.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.”
“To think of shadows is a serious thing.”
Source: Les Misérables
“To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?”
“To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“To think of them and memories with - on days with mood dimmed by some traumatic spell of a haunting quite residual - is to have the brain become a cell and trapped inside there is only the music of the surly sullen bell.”
Source: Night Tide Musings
“To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.”
Source: The last will and testament of Cecil John Rhodes: with elucidatory notes to which are added some chapters describing the political and religious ideas of the testator
“To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.”
“To think of your creations in terms of better or worse- big mistake. They are your children.”
“To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.”
“To think or not to think? That is the new question.”
Source: The Thinking Man, Paralysis by Analysis
“To think or not to think... this is a true question.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical. "To illustrate a principle ," says Bagehot , "you must exaggerate much and you must omit much." As to the quantity of absolute truth in a thought : it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind they are interesting and they stimulate.”
“To think outside the box, first you need to know what YOU & OTHERS are thinking inside.”
“To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“To think someone can go out and sell something about you is really disgusting. I'm much more careful now.”
“To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.”
“To think that a few nights ago I had felt so strong an urge to host his body in mine that I'd nearly jumped out of bed to seek him out in his room. Now the idea couldn't possibly arouse me. Perhaps this whole thing with Oliver had been canicular rut, and I was well rid of it.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“To think that a single step is random, and to take a thousand such steps each day is to insure that we will end up in the very places that we spent our lives avoiding.”
“To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.”
Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences
“To think that another person shared my love for the icy bleakness of things.”
Source: Teatro Grottesco
“To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”
Source: Considerations on Representative Government
“To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?”
“To think that Donald Trump could have his finger over the big red button is absolutely terrifying.”
“To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity.”
“To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.”
“To think that God pens history solely as a retelling of ‘what was’ is to miss the extraordinary fact that history is God’s initiation to ‘what can be.’ And Christmas is one of the greatest moments in history which renders it one of the greatest invitations of our life.”
“To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity.”
“To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.”
Source: Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life
“To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.”
“To think that ignoring something is to make it go away is to exercise some of the greatest imagination imaginable. And if there’s something that needs to go away, it’s that kind of imagination.”
“To think that land reform is going to somehow automatically create an equitable system, I think that's just wrong. It's a very technical view of the world.”
“To think that one child would go to bed hungry somewhere in this country is heartbreaking... to know how many do is virtually incomprehensible. This is not only a problem that exists in the far reaches of the globe. It happens right here in our own backyard. Together, as concerned citizens, we must do more to make sure every child's needs are met.”
“To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I can't believe the narrowness that has been attributed to God in terms of what he would approve and disapprove.”
“To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present practice is practice in realization, one's initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization.”
Source: Zen and Western Thought
“To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.”
Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.”
Source: Posthumous
“To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.”
Source: The Town and the City
“To think that someone we loved, trusted, opened our home to could do this to our daughter and granddaughter is beyond belief.”
“To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.”
“To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.”
“To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.”
Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
“To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all.”
Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
“To think that the woman is dominated by man or man is dominated by woman comes from a kind of a complex and this complex must be given up. You are complimentary to each other. You decorate each other. Never talk ill of your husbands and never talk ill of your wives. This is the key of having an exclusive married life.”
“To think that the world can ever change without changes in our mental models is folly.”
Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
“To think that there's any mountain too high for me to CLIMB would be the universe playing mind games with me and I'm constantly positioning my mind to not fall for such a trick.”