T Quotes
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“To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation.”
“To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation.”
“To truly succeed, one must first be distinctive.”
“To truly try is to give all you have, when you have nothing left.”
“To truly try means to accept God's love, his healing, to accept the world can be ugly, but your heart doesn't have to be. It takes courage, Finley the warrior. You haven't held on to your anger and bitterness in search of healing, but as a banner of your hurt. Because it's real and visible and strong, " she said. "But so is God's love and so are those arms he's holding out for you.”
Source: There You'll Find Me
“To truly understand a story you need to start from the beginning, but to start from the beginning you have to go back, further than just you. After all, our stories don’t start with us, do they? Our stories start with the person before us, and the person before them. We are created from the stories of those people—from their mistakes, from their achievements, from their love, and their hate. No one’s story is ever truly their own.”
Source: Melancholy
“To truly understand the US's policies, we need look no further than the US's own post-WW II policy statements, as well-articulated by George Kennan, serving as the State Department's Director of Policy Planning, in 1948:
"{W}e have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3 of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships, which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security....We need no deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction....
In the face of this situation we would be better off to...cease to talk about vague- and for the Far East- unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."
And the US's "straight power" plays since WW II have succeeded in allowing itself, with only 5% of the world's population, to monopolize about 25% of its resources. In other words, far from advancing the "lofty" and "benign" goals of freedom and democracy, as the New York Times's editorial would have us believe, the US has been waging war around the globe to protect its own unjust share of resources. However, the US has needed the perceived threat of the USSR, or other like enemy, to justify this. Keenan recognized this fact as well, when he said: "Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.".”
Source: The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia
“To truly understand the word of God we must be open minded, patient, ready and willing to challenge directives.”
“To truly uphold democracy is an act of humility. Democracy is the choice to accept that one’s most cherished beliefs and foundational principles may not win the day. It is a willing abnegation where we bequeath power to those we may view as wrongheaded, unfit, or abominable. It is the paradox of holding true to ourselves, even as we accept when the vote goes against us and the desires of others prevail.”
Source: The Mask of Fear
“To truly work smarter instead of harder, embrace what you love. When you're passionate about your work, it transforms into an invigorating pursuit rather than a burdensome task.”
“To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.”
Source: Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust
“To trust any mainstream system of education is foolish and I promise you this… No child of mine will be attending any school that I have stepped foot in.”
Source: FAITH, In Stories That Change
“To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless...If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defense of themselves and their country.”
“To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 13: Sermons 728 to 787
“To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.”
“To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one which he has always known.”
Source: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
“To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.”
“To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.”
“To trust other people to keep you safe, it's very difficult ... But when Tom Cruise is there, you just expect that he'll save you. I was like, "Tom. You're Tom Cruise. It's your job to save the day. And the day is me. You need to save it. If I panic, I expect you to be down there."”
“To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.”
“To trust so much in our devices and sync everyone's device up - we tell people where we are, what we buy and where we shop, who we talk to - and that goes somewhere. The ghost of information technology out there, and one of the points... of the manga and anime was trusting in technology.”
“To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)”
“To trust the future will take care of itself is to deny an obvious and necessary revolution.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.”
Source: The Bible According to Mark Twain
“To trust the slow work of the sacred is to discover that the ground has always been there. That it was holding us before we noticed it. That the peace we were searching for in the resolution of our circumstances was available, all along, beneath them — in the stillness we kept moving too fast to find.”
Source: The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out
“To trust yourself fully, is to betray every beautiful side of you that life showed you
Life showed you parts of yourself you never thought were there, not because it was was kind - because it wasn't. You saw it as a curse. But that was the only gift that kept on giving
And to not remember it when you no longer feel vulnerable, is to betray, not life, but everything that you told yourself you wouldn't be”
“To trust yourself is to trust Silence. To trust your own heart is to trust the wisdom that is radiating and shining. All the thoughts, feelings, desires, and fears are just a superimposition that is called 'myself.' When all that disappears, for at least a moment, your Self shines forth. Radiantly, clear, and empty. Needing nothing, nourished, and overflowing.”
“To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.”
“To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation
“To truth there is no error. To life there is no death.”
Source: Homesick for Heaven: You Don't Have to Wait
“To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.”
Source: The Poems
“To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.”
“To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.”
Source: The Functions of the Executive
“To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.”
“To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.”
“To try, and maybe be wrong, without consequences to anyone but herself; this was one of the treasures she wanted from her retreat. It's was the kind of possibility that would usually get lost in the forest of her responsibilities.”
Source: Time Slipping
“To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.”
“To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.”
“To try is to accept the possibility of failure. Simply do.”
Source: Veterans of the Psychic Wars
“To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.”
“To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.”
“To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.”
“To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.”
“To try to be better is to be better.”
“To try to be brave is to be brave.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.”
“To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.”
Source: The Hinge of Fate
“To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.”
“To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.”
“To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.”