T Quotes
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“To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.”
“To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.”
“To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.”
“To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.”
“To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.”
“To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“To witness, simply observe. Watch without judgment, without emotional involvement.”
“To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.”
“To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it profoundly at that moment watching those two, with the ancient land around them, in their traditional robes and the resting camels by their campfire, intently regarding writing with such immense respect … that illiteracy meant subsistence, while literacy meant human advancement, the base on which higher achievements and accomplishments of great civilizations could be built.”
“To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.”
“To wives, girlfriends and all the women out there, stop blaming your man, he tries his best to not to slip but when Vishwamitra couldnt stop himself, hum toh aam log hai you see ;)”
“To wojna, wszystkiego dowodzi i wszystko usprawiedliwia. Matka wszechrzeczy. Do niej się wszystko przystosowuje.”
Source: Wir nannten ihn Galgenstrick
“To women silence gives their proper grace.”
Source: Tragedies
“To women, therefore, the effect was broadly the same, however the message of male supremacy came packaged. All these systems - Judaism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam - were presented to them as holy, the result of divine inspiration transmitted from a male power to males empowered for this purpose, thereby enshrining maleness itself as power.”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, and lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases.”
“To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, but lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases.”
“To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.”
“To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.”
“To wonder is to begin to understand.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“To wonder is to learn - to wonder is to grow - to wonder is to live. Live with wonder - because in the simplicity of wonder lie the answers.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“To wonder is to recreate a sacred self.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.”
“To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.”
Source: Katherine Mansfield: selected letters
“To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.”
“To work and create “for nothing,” to sculpture
in clay, to know that one’s creation has no future, to see one’s work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this
has no more importance than building for centuries—this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these
two tasks simultaneously, negating on the one hand and magnifying on the other, is the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“To work and suffer is to be at home.
All else is scenery.”
Source: Selected poems, 1950-1995
“To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.”
“To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.”
“To work (at a job) is to sacrifice the life you have at the moment”
“To work best democracy needs a diversity of thoughts, ideas and expression. This is only possible with freedom and civility.”
“To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.”
“To work effectively in a film, you have to repeat and work consistently. Basically, you shoot a big master then you do close-ups. You're supposed to be in the same moment, the same 30-second moment, for a day.”
“To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.”
“To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country.”
Source: Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation
“To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection”
Source: The revolution of everyday life
“To work for God effectively, you have to expand and stretch yourself”
“To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.”
“To work for peace
Means
First of all
Not to be
Ignorant
About who
Has none.”
“To work for salary is to give out your life for little compensation.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To work for salary is to mortgage your life.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
“To work from nature is to improvise.”
Source: Georges Braque
“To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more”
“To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?”
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.”
Source: The People, Yes
“To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.”
“To work in America or other places is more about curiosity, because I'm dealing with cultures and sensibilities that I don't really know. So I'm having to sort of investigate them, which I'm fascinated in, but it comes from a place of curiosity rather than a real need to get something out of my system.”