To be connected to the real world is healthy and important.
‐‐ Jesse Schell
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
‐‐ Sam Snead
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
‐‐ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.
‐‐ Rob Lowe
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
‐‐ Nawal El Saadawi
To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.
‐‐ Myriam Miedzian
To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.
‐‐ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull
To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.
‐‐ Howard Fast
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
‐‐ Sophocles
To be efficient with the football in practice and on the game field obviously is the most important thing, but be efficient with the football, make smart decisions, be great on third downs, be great in the red zone, when the game's on the line in the fourth quarter - that's what I love.
‐‐ Russell Wilson
To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.
‐‐ Mike DeWine
To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.
‐‐ Misty Copeland
To be entirely honest, I am an extremely confident person, and I don't think I would have gotten into this business if I felt that I wasn't going to succeed and I intend to be in this business, for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Erika Christensen
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
‐‐ Richard Steele
To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.
‐‐ Halsey
To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
‐‐ Owen Benjamin
To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
‐‐ A. J. Bowen
To be fair is not enough any more. We must be ferociously fair.
‐‐ John Hay Whitney
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
‐‐ Peter Schuyler
To be fair, my analysis failed to spell out Obama's first-term accomplishments, although I did acknowledge his 'enormous skills' and tried to focus readers on the distinction between good and great presidencies.
‐‐ Ron Fournier
To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.
‐‐ Rob Woodall
To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman
To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart
To be fair, when I started doing 'Verdict' I literally had no idea what I was doing. I wanted to do some theatre, as I wanted to do something different. I wanted to learn and get an understanding of the craft.
‐‐ Matthew Lewis
To be famous and broke is hard.
‐‐ David Spade
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
‐‐ Albert Camus
To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson
To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
‐‐ Adam Clarke
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
‐‐ Jane Austen
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz
To be forgotten, is to die a little.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi
To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
‐‐ Timothy Radcliffe
To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.
‐‐ Douglas Adams
To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be successful, there really aren't moments that change you.
‐‐ Mark Walter
To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.
‐‐ Miguel Indurain
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
‐‐ Aeschylus
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt
To be free is to have achieved your life.
‐‐ Tennessee Williams
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
‐‐ Meister Eckhart
To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss
To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.
‐‐ Dan Savage
To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as 'Spartacus' was a real thrill. That had a lot to do with the evolution of my ambition as well.
‐‐ Jai Courtney
To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera
To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.
‐‐ Erin Wasson
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
‐‐ Tryon Edwards