T Quotes
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“To walk in the woods is not to run from life. Rather, it’s to observe how life should be done in order to build a culture that won’t require any running.”
“To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.”
“To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’ What else? It's brilliantly instead and odd.”
“To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.”
Source: The House In Paris
“To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason”
“To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The moving about that the city mutliplies and concentrates makes the city itself an immense social experience of lacking a place -- an experience that is, to be sure, broken up into countless tiny deportations (displacements and walks), compensated for by the relationships and intersections of these exoduses that intertwine and create an urban fabric, and placed under the sign of what ought to be, ultimately, the place but is only a name, the City...a universe of rented spaces haunted by a nowhere or by dreamed-of places.”
Source: The Practice of Everyday Life
“To walk is to lack a place.”
“To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.”
Source: The Practice of Everyday Life
“To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.”
“To walk on the road is a journey; to sit under the tree is a journey! Everything we do is a journey to somewhere!”
“To ‘walk on thin ice’ is to demonstrate how thick my common sense is not.”
“To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.”
Source: The C. S. Lewis Bible
“To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.”
“To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
“To walk the path of intentionally and consciously finding love, you need to start with the main question: Where do I want to go?”
Source: Break The Glass Slipper: Free Yourself from Fairy Tale Fantasies and Find True Love in Real Life
“To walk through life with every step a full measure to our, so called, 'destiny' would be a boring life indeed. Embarked on this straight, direct, unerring journey, complete with no 'mirrors or doors', would surely be no friend. Why is this so hard to understand?”
“To walk through suffering as a Christian - to share in Christ's sufferings - we have to face the darkness. We have to feel the things we hate to feel - sadness, loss, loneliness. We have to drink the bitter cup we've been given. No shortcuts. No free passes. But this is the strange way of true comfort. It's the only way to discover soothing that is substantial enough to bare the weight of our souls.”
Source: Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
“To walk through walls go two steps slower in the vast conspiracy of ignorace.”
“To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.”
Source: To walk with nature: the drawings of Thomas Cole : an exhibition
“To walk without seeking. To see without judgment. To hear without speaking. To love without needing. To leave without wanting to return.”
“To walk, we have to lean forward, lose our balance and begin to fall. We let go constantly of the previous stability, falling all the time, trusting that we will find a succession of new stabilities with each step.”
“To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.”
“to wander again
beneath the starry sky
with the moon
for company...”
“To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.”
“To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.”
“To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the "sole prerogative" to determine the products.”
Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have--to want and want--how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again! Oh, Mrs. Ramsay! she called out silently, and to that essence which sat by the boat, that abstract one made of her, that woman in grey, as if to abuse her for having gone, and then having gone, come back again. It had seemed so safe, thinking of her. Ghost, air, nothingness, a thing you could play with easily and safely at any time of day or night, she had been that, and then suddenly she put her hand out and wrung the heart thus.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.”
“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”
Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge
“To want is more than to attain.”
“To want is to have a weakness.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“To want is to suffer.”
“To want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind and open.”
“To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.”
“To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.”
Source: Trust
“To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.”
Source: General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations
“To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.”
“To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.”
“To want to meet God in us in a "heart-to-heart" without passing through the "face to face" of adoration requires a purification of the inner self and a solid formation without which prayer risks leading us back to ourselves and not to God present in us.”
Source: Could You Not Watch with Me One Hour?: How to Cultivate a Deeper Relationship with the Lord through Eucharistic Adoration
“To want to own a restaurant can be a strange and terrible affliction. What causes such a destructive urge in so many otherwise sensible people? Why would anyone who has worked hard, saved money, often been successful in other fields, want to pump their hard-earned cash down a hole that statistically, at least, will almost surely prove dry? Why venture into an industry with enormous fixed expenses (...), with a notoriously transient and unstable workforce, and highly perishable inventory of assets? The chances of ever seeing a return on your investment are about one in five. What insidious spongi-form bacteria so riddles the brains of men and women that they stand there on the tracks, watching the lights of the oncoming locomotive, knowing full well it will eventually run over them? After all these years in the business, I still don't know.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.”
Source: Reminiscence of the Present: Spiritual Encounters of the Analytically Insane
“To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.”
Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel
“To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.”
“To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.”
Source: The Last Time They Met
“To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present.”
Source: Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn
“To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.”
“To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.”
Source: Morning and Evening
“To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet”