To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
‐‐ Giles Foden
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry
To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.
‐‐ Kim Dae Jung
To realize President Obama's vision of opportunity for all, it's all about making the right match. The way we do that is through job-driven training - connecting ready-to-work Americans with ready to be-filled jobs. It helps more people secure a foothold in the middle class and helps businesses to profit and grow.
‐‐ Thomas Perez
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
‐‐ Herbert Read
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
‐‐ Lao Tzu
To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.
‐‐ Cristina Saralegui
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
‐‐ Anne Rice
To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
‐‐ Donna Tartt
To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.
‐‐ Mary Lynn Rajskub
To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
‐‐ Carrie Brownstein
To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.
‐‐ Martha Beck
To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic
To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.
‐‐ Kirk Cameron
To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other.
‐‐ Jean Piaget
To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
‐‐ Fatos Nano
To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept.
‐‐ James E. Faust
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
‐‐ Taisen Deshimaru
To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
‐‐ James Welch
To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.
‐‐ Paul Twitchell
To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce
To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.
‐‐ Ryan Coogler
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
‐‐ Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
To reconstruct stories and scenes, nonfiction writers must conduct vigorous and responsible research. In fact, narrative requires more research than traditional reportage, for writers cannot simply tell what they learn and know; rather, they must show it.
‐‐ Lee Gutkind
To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.
‐‐ Hans-Ulrich Obrist
To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
‐‐ Matthew Fox
To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer
To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.
‐‐ Sarah Palin
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
‐‐ Jean Rostand
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
‐‐ George Santayana
To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden to entrenched bureaucrats within the agency.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
‐‐ Mark Twain
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus
To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.
‐‐ Evan Bayh
To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
‐‐ John Burroughs
To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.
‐‐ David Whyte
To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
‐‐ Robert Shea
To reject the word is to reject the human search.
‐‐ Max Lerner
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
‐‐ Tryon Edwards
To relax, I do yoga and meditate and do little math problems, and it's fun to check that part of your brain off and turn on a different part.
‐‐ David Alpay
To relax, I love sitting back and turning my brain off and watching TV.
‐‐ Aja Naomi King
To relax, I work.
‐‐ Christopher Lambert
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
‐‐ Vladimir Lenin
To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell
To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.
‐‐ Kelly Jones
To remain young one must change.
‐‐ Alexander Chase
To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer