All Quotes

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
‐‐ Tacitus

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?
‐‐ Tucker Carlson

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
‐‐ Bela Lugosi

To portray an iconic character has been brilliant in itself, and to be able to do that on a show like 'Once Upon a Time' enhances that because the show puts a spin on characters and makes them very different and puts core values that are very different that aren't in the original fairy tales a lot of people relate to.
‐‐ Robbie Kay

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.
‐‐ Beth Moore

To possess taste, one must have some soul.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
‐‐ Lamar Alexander

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
‐‐ Confucius

To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.
‐‐ James Dashner

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
‐‐ Rita Dove

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
‐‐ Carl Friedrich Gauss

To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.
‐‐ L. Lionel Kendrick

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.
‐‐ Rebecca Harding Davis

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
‐‐ George Whitefield

To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.
‐‐ Roland Allen

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
‐‐ Plato

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
‐‐ John Locke

To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg

To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
‐‐ Jacques Derrida

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
‐‐ Trevor McDonald

To prevent a crippling attack on our nation's critical networks, U.S. companies and the federal government must work together to combat those who wish to do us harm.
‐‐ Michael McCaul

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.
‐‐ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
‐‐ Herman Melville

To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
‐‐ Agnes Martin

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.
‐‐ L. Lionel Kendrick

To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
‐‐ Anna Lindh

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.
‐‐ Michael Bennet

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
‐‐ Neil Young

To protect our kids, we've given law enforcement new tools to fight human trafficking.
‐‐ Brett Guthrie

To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.
‐‐ Ai Weiwei

To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our foreign policy platform is very important.
‐‐ Jill Stein

To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but vital only insofar as such detail is in the service of a richly imagined story, rather than in the service of good botany or good philosophy or good geography.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
‐‐ Daniel Libeskind

To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
‐‐ Ernst Fischer

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.
‐‐ David Blunkett

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
‐‐ Maximilien Robespierre

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
‐‐ Emile Durkheim

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
‐‐ Vaclav Klaus