T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.”
Source: The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in one volume: including the poems, philosophic and inspirational essays, and biographical studies
“To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason”
“To wage a war is easy, what's difficult is to wage a war without harming the innocent.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“To wage a war is easy, what's difficult is to wage a war without harming the innocent. And that's where a reformist differs from a terrorist.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men, and therefore the common good of humanity. Peace cannot be limited to a mere absence of war, the result of an ever precarious balance of forces. No, peace is something that is built up day after day, in the pursuit of an order intended by God, which implies a more perfect form of justice among men.”
Source: On the development of peoples
“To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.”
“To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.”
“To wait for anything was to risk losing everything. I knew that now.”
Source: Alive Day: A Memoir
“To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.”
“To wait idly is the worst of conditions.”
Source: Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition
“To wait implies that what you desire will be yours in the end.”
Source: Heart-Beast
“To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.”
Source: Hope: A Holy Promise
“To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it.”
“To wait means you are constantly straddling two realities - the hoped-for outcome either happening, or not. Yes, or no. Yes, or no. You feel the pull of both possibilities as you wait.”
Source: Those Who Wait: Finding God in Disappointment, Doubt and Delay
“To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.”
Source: Daily Communion with God: Christianity No Sect ; The Sabbath ; The Promises of God ; The Worth of the Soul ; A Church in the House
“To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.”
“To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.”
“To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.”
Source: Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul
“To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.”
“To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.”
Source: The Greengage Summer
“To wake from slumber with a consciousness of well-being is to welcome joy that is knocking at your door. To be possessed of hope is to summon joy that never knocked, and is perhaps the deeper joy for not being dependent on any feeling or circumstance.”
Source: Trompe l'Oeil: Beauty and the Beast Retold
“To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!”
Source: The Desert and the Sown: Travels in Palestine and Syria
“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart”
“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.”
“To wake up each morning is a miracle.”
“To wake up every morning is miracle. To make a good use of every day is an appreciation of miracle. To waste the entire hours of each day is ungratefulness towards a miracle already given and received!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.”
“To wake up on a gloriously bright morning, in a tent pitched beneath spruce trees, and to look out lazily and sleepily for a moment from the open side of the tent, across the dead camp-fire of the night before, to the river, where the light of morning rests and perhaps some early-rising[240] native is gliding in his birch canoe; to go to the river and freshen one's self with the cold water, and yell exultingly to the gulls and hell-divers, in the very joy of living; or to wake at night, when you have rolled in your blankets in the frost-stricken dying grass without a tent, and to look up through the leaves above to the dark sky and the flashing stars, and hear far off the call of a night bird or the howl of a wolf: this is the poetry, the joy of a wild and roving existence, which cannot come too often”
Source: Through the Yukon Gold Diggings
“To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.”
Source: The Loser
“To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote”
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“To wake up to the sound of my son saying 'Mama, mama!' It's the best sound ever.”
“To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“To walk a mile in someone else's shoes, you must first remove your own. For how can a double-shoed person truly feel the shoes of another? It is only when the filters of the mind are released, that another person can truly be seen, felt, heard and understood without judgment.”
“To walk a soulful path is to step into the hidden, luminous undercurrents of life, where the ordinary transforms into the extraordinary and the mundane into the sacred. It is a journey of attunement, where the soul finds its true rhythm, moving in harmony with the pulse of the earth, the dance of the seasons, and the silent conversations of the stars. In this journey, there is no rush, no need to arrive anywhere, for the path itself is the destination—a living, breathing landscape where each step is a prayer, each moment a revelation.”
“To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.”
“To walk across the street is a risk.”
“To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic, worries or grieves too much over matters, and ponders too intensively to know God's will, it may become unbearable and hamper its normal operation. The mind needs to be kept in a steady and secure state.”
Source: Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons
“To walk among trees is to walk among elders who speak without sound.”
“To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.”
“To walk away from God is to walk away from fear.”
Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST
“To walk barefoot is sacred.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“To walk before God and in His presence, is the ground and the costly jewel of true Christian living. I would have you above all things to grasp this firmly,because, when it is rightly understood and practiced, it includes all else.”
“To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.”
“to walk between the spiritual and physical is to carry a specific kind of medicine. but to share it effectively, you must first understand the limits of this plane, your purpose within it and the ways you’re meant to impart your gift. for those of us who bridge these realms, this means our "medicine" must be shared with care.
the journey is not a one-size-fits-all. it’s important to meet every situation where it actually is. each piece is crafted as the required medicine for its time, destined to find those it's meant to serve.”
“To walk by the sea and carry the sound inside, is to impregnate yourself with a hilarious delight.”
“To walk down the aisle and see all my friends and family and to see my handsome man standin' there, and to know that at 61 you can still find love and have a magical day like that ... it was really beautiful.”
“To walk gently on the earth is not weakness—it is discipline. It is power shaped by respect.”
“To walk in faith is to confess that we do not know what awaits us, and the faith I have embraced does not promise an easy road.”
Source: Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death
“To walk in someone else's shoes means that you have to leave your prejudiced shoes behind
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“To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes.”