All Quotes

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.
‐‐ Ricky Jay

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
‐‐ Claude Chabrol

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.
‐‐ Milton Sapirstein

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
‐‐ John Gray

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
‐‐ Spiro T. Agnew

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.
‐‐ Frances Perkins

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its people.
‐‐ Jefferson Davis

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
‐‐ Quintus Ennius

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
‐‐ Jason Gann

To open up new markets and create American jobs, we need to make global bilateral free trade agreements a priority as they were under the Clinton administration.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowe's, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.
‐‐ Edward Lampert

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

To oppose something is to maintain it.
‐‐ Ursula K. Le Guin

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
‐‐ Jack Layton

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bibesco

To our allies and our friends and our partners. Listen closely. We are with you. America will not abandon you.
‐‐ John R. Allen

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

To our enemies - to our enemies - we will pursue you as only America can. You will fear us.
‐‐ John R. Allen

To our men and women in the armed services, the huge and deep core of your loyalty has earned the nation's accolade.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.
‐‐ Pierre Salinger

To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

To outsource your memory to machines - which is what many of us do with regard to our use of search engines - seems to me to be fairly antithetical to the basic qualities of Jewish life that have kept the Jews alive for so long.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
‐‐ Peter McWilliams

To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.
‐‐ Anne F. Beiler

To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.
‐‐ Hannah Kearney

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
‐‐ Ruth Hubbard

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
‐‐ Alan Moore

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
‐‐ Philip Guston

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
‐‐ Frida Kahlo

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.
‐‐ Elizabeth Peyton

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
‐‐ Charles Godfrey Leland

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.
‐‐ Bruce Feirstein

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

To participate in a World Cup is a great honour and achievement. I've played in three World Cups. The whole world watches you during a World Cup and expects you to play innings to win games for your country.
‐‐ Virender Sehwag

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
‐‐ E. Stanley Jones

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.
‐‐ George Saintsbury

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.
‐‐ Andy Taylor

To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it.
‐‐ Chuck Mangione

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.
‐‐ Jim Gibbons

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

To people all over America, I say, when you have my father in your corner, you will never again have to worry about being let down. He will fight for you all the time, all the way, every time.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump