All Quotes

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

To a very great extent, it's the fast-food industry that really industrialized our agriculture - that drove the system to one variety of chicken grown very quickly in confinement, to the feedlot system for beef, to giant monocultures to grow potatoes. All of those thing flow from the desire of fast-food companies for a perfectly consistent product.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
‐‐ Albert Camus

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
‐‐ Alfred A. Montapert

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
‐‐ Anatole France

To accomplish its mission, the FBI relies heavily upon its law enforcement and intelligence partners around the nation and around the globe. By combining our resources and our collective expertise, we are able to investigate national security threats that cross both geographical and jurisdictional boundaries.
‐‐ James Comey

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
‐‐ Epictetus

To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.
‐‐ Jean Piaget

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
‐‐ Queen Rania of Jordan

To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to better reflect market fundamentals.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
‐‐ Leonard Bernstein

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
‐‐ Jean Genet

To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
‐‐ Lawrence Clark Powell

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
‐‐ Carlos Castaneda

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
‐‐ Florence King

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
‐‐ Ayn Rand

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant

To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen

To act alongside a TV idol of mine, Peter Krause, was phenomenal. I watched him in 'Six Feet Under,' I watched him on 'Dirty Sexy Money' and I'll carry on watching him, and I've been lucky enough to be a part of that world with him.
‐‐ Alex Pettyfer

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

To act for a living is a gift, and understanding you're a lucky bloke keeps your feet on the ground.
‐‐ Michael Socha

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.
‐‐ Marshall Allman

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
‐‐ Friedrich August von Hayek

To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
‐‐ J. M. G. Le Clezio

To act well isn't an easy thing.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
‐‐ Helena Blavatsky

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.
‐‐ Preity Zinta

To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me.
‐‐ Kristen Johnston

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.
‐‐ Kip Winger

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
‐‐ Augustus Hare

To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.
‐‐ Randa Haines

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.
‐‐ Randy Bachman

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
‐‐ Denis Kearney

To add value to others, one must first value others.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table - to rethink the food we produce, buy and eat.
‐‐ Ellen Gustafson

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.
‐‐ Serge Lang

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.
‐‐ Mikhail Khodorkovsky

To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
‐‐ David Whyte

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson