T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To what end does one liberate one's country if afterward there is no meaningful goal in life, no goal for which it is worthwhile to be free? If a person no longer finds any meaning in their life, it makes no difference whether they waste away under a communist or a capitalist regime. Only if they can use their freedom to create something meaningful is it relevant that they should be free. That is why finding the inner meaning of life is more important to the individual than anything else, and why the process of individuation must be given priority.”
“To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?”
Source: A Gentleman in Moscow
“To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!”
“To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government, as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“To what extent are such laboratory results generalizable to real traumatic experiences? Pezdek, Finger, and Hodge (1997) demonstrated the importance of event plausibility. Researchers were able to implant false memories of plausible events, such as being lost in a shopping mall, but were unsuccessful at causing participants to form false memories of implausible events, such as receiving an enema or participating in a religious ceremony from a tradition other than their own (Pezdek, Finger, & Hodge, 1997; Pezdek & Hodge, 1999). Besides failing to address event plausibility, laboratory experiments may also fail to capture emotions such as fear, shame, and betrayal that are often linked to interpersonal trauma."
KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING ABOUT TRAUMA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY”
“To what extent do we attach meaning to our experience of the world based on language?”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“To what extent do you wish for your past to be different?' ...
He didn't even pause, didn't even take a breath. 'None of the time.”
Source: The Collector
“To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.”
“To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know”
“To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.”
Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir
“To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield ... Nach Walter Scott's verbessertem Texte durchgängig accentuirt. Nebst ... Noten und einem vollständigen Wörterbuche ... Bearbeitet von Christian Heinrich Plessner ... Fünfte Auflage
“To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest.”
“To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?”
“To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit of the occasion? Do you in quiet moments ponder it? Does Karl G.Maeser's phrase, "paragraphs from the book of our possibilities" rest upon you with a sense of mission so that, as President Heber J.Grant exemplified, "you "dream nobly and manfully" and prepare ceaselessly? Do you ever think of Heber C.Kimball's faith that you can "write your own patriarchal blessing" under inspiration, for, saith the Lord, "No good thing will I withhold...”
“To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut.”
“To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.”
Source: Elements of Electro-metallurgy
“To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes forth from His royal chambers, accompanied with blessing, are we to hold ourselves at leisure that we may yield Him worship and offer Him service?”
“TO what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”
“To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?”
“To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?”
“To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“To what roads have I come walking on unknown paths!”
“To what shall
I liken the world?
Moonlight, reflected
In dewdrops,
Shaken from a crane's bill.”
“To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?”
Source: The Rationale of Reward
“To what shall we compare our fragile life?
Life is like a speck of dust that alights upon a surface. It remains there, unmoved, until a draft threatens it. When a breeze comes it holds on till the last. Finally, a gust of wind comes and it is blown asunder. That is how fragile life is, like a speck of dust blown to nothingness.”
Source: Life: As Fragile As Dust
“To what will love not stoop!”
Source: The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Cascando, Eh Joe, Footfall, Rockaby and others
“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior.”
Source: The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
“To whatever degree we are alert, aware, to that degree we are living”
“To whatever degree you listen and follow your intuition, you become a creative channel for the higher power of the universe.”
Source: The Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation
“To whatever end.”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“To whatever end,” he whispered.
Silver lined her eyes. “To whatever end.”
A reminder—and a vow, more sacred than the wedding oaths they’d sworn on that ship.
To walk this path together, back from the darkness of the iron coffin. To face what waited in Terrasen, ancient promises to the gods be damned.”
Source: Kingdom of Ash
“To whatever end?” she breathed. Rowan followed her, as he had his entire life, long before they had ever met, before their souls had sparked into existence. “To whatever end, Fireheart.”
Source: Kingdom of Ash
“To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?”
“To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.”
“To whatever level the awakened awareness has reached, that is how close One is to the Self (Atma). The closer one reaches, that much more the light, that much more the illumination.”
“To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple; for it belongs not to this earth alone.”
Source: Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons
“To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)
“To which the bride, throwing aside her veil, answered firmly:
"No! not if he were the last man and I the last woman on the face of the earth, and the human race were about to become extinct, and the angel Gabriel came down from above to ask it of me as a personal favor."
The effect of this outburst, this revelation, this explosion, may be imagined but can never be adequately described.”
Source: The Hidden Hand
“To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.”
Source: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr Omnibus
“To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“To whoever needs to hear this: It's never too late to change directions. Life isn't a linear path. So do not stifle your potential by staying in a lane that doesn't fit what you want for yourself anymore.”
“To whoever will listen.
I've been thinking about black holes a lot. How their gravity is so strong it bends time and space. How you'd be stretched down to atoms passing the event horizon.
I kind of feel like I'm being stretched to atoms. Like I'm falling apart and becoming so metaphorically thin that I'm transparent. But, as nothing that happens past the event horizon affects the universe outside of it, nothing that I'm feeling is affecting anyone in the outside world, either.
The event horizon is a point of no return. Nothing, not even light, can escape it.
I wonder what will happen when I pass the event horizon and fully submerge myself into the black hole.
There are theories that if you enter a blackhole under a specific angle, you'll survive and hit the bottom of it. The chances are incredibily small.
I doubt I'll survive.”
Source: Dear My Blank: Secret Letters Never Sent
“To whom are you for?
Is a good question to ask.
For one way sows to life,
The other to evil basks.”
Source: There is a God
“To whom brain is given, sense is required”
“To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.”
Source: The Waves
“To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?”
“To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?”
“To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.”