Top 100 T To Quotes
#1. Here's a word. Bereavement. Or, Bereaved. Bereft. It's from the Old English bereafian, meaning 'to deprive of, take away, seize, rob'. Robbed. Seized. It happens to everyone. But you feel it alone. Shocking loss isn't to be shared, no matter how hard you try.
Helen Macdonald
#2. As a soccer player, the goal isn't to be very bulky. It is more important to even your body out. Make sure your body is well rounded. You can't really focus on one area. Everything has to be balanced.
Jozy Altidore
#3. Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures weren't to be destroyed.
Elise Kova
#4. Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.
Lauren Graham
#5. You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Anthony Hope
#6. The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something that people choose to talk about, regardless of what the competition is doing.
Seth Godin
#7. I consider myself a law-abiding person. But I'm exhausted. I don't know where to put the bottles, newspapers, cans, and other stuff for garbage pickup outside my house. The rules are so thick you need someone from M.I.T. to explain them.
Bill O'Reilly
#8. He glanced at Trey nervously and quickly averted his gaze to settle on Brian. "You guys rock. I absolutely idolize you. I wan't to be you."
"I want to do you," Trey said, toying with the hair at the nape of Mark's neck.
Olivia Cunning
#9. The goal of life isn't to make lots of money. Its to make a life that means EXCLUSIVE.
Mohit Manke
#10. People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can't.
Virginia Postrel
#11. anyway, the money was great, but the corporate world just wasn't to my liking. i guess i'm not a team player--or an ass-kisser.
Douglas Preston
#12. My job as a coach isn't to 'fix' people it is to 'break' them and empower them to connect to their spirit and trust that they will be re-built into a new improved version given a little time and patience.
Rebecca O'Dwyer Centred Woman
#13. I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.
Drew Barrymore
#14. In truth, if it isn't to save your life when it's in imminent danger, someone yelling at you is just plain wrong. The same is true for ranting or bitching. The same goes double for anything even close to manhandling.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#15. Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days ... We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics; they are faking and fronting.
Chuck D
#16. My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
Dennis Conner
#17. The word "brotherhood" is, to be sure, a fine word, but we oughtn't to forget its ambiguity. The first pair of brothers in the history of the world were, according to the Bible, Cain and Abel, and the one murdered the other.
Pope Benedict XVI
#18. Perhaps it's when you come to the realization that the point of life isn't to be rich, or secure, or even to be loved - to be any of the things that people usually think is the point. The point of life is to live as deeply as possible, to experience fully. And that can be done in so many ways.
Theodora Goss
#19. What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?
Saul Bellow
#20. The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.
Ravi Zacharias
#21. Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.
Ellen Goodman
#22. Look, we can definitively agree that cable is far superior to network. That isn't to say that there can't be a great network drama or comedy that makes 20-plus episodes a year. We know that there are, and there have been.
Damon Lindelof
#23. The function of a guideline isn't to tell you what kids have actually experienced; it's to provide goals.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
#24. At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#25. I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough. The more they reveal themselves, the more we love them, but there's a lot of truth in what they're showing.
Paul Haggis
#26. My reason for coming out isn't to be some sort of hero,
Sheryl Swoopes
#27. Every society has its own problems," Morrie said, lifting his eyebrows, the closest he could come to a shrug. "The way to do it, I think, isn't to run away. You have to work at creating your own culture.
Mitch Albom
#28. Maybe some of the masters really believed they could make it work, but I think what they really wanted wasn't to do it themselves but for somebody else to have made it real and for them to have been born there.
Jo Walton
#29. I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.
Miles Franklin
#30. There are 365 days in the year, and as a working actor, you might only work 17 of them. You might only need to do two ads and you can afford to live for the year, but it doesn't make for a very satisfactory or fulfilling life. The point isn't to not work - it's to work.
Sarah Snook
#31. Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.
Seth Godin
#32. I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
Randy Harrison
#33. Haida preferred to listen to instrumental music, chamber music, and vocal recordings. Music where the orchestral component was loud and prominent wasn't to his liking.
Haruki Murakami
#34. I suppose one oughtn't to marry anybody, unless one's prepared to make him a full-time job."
"Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who don't look on themselves as jobs but as fellow creatures.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#35. Chopra concludes his work with, "Your goal and mine isn't to imitate Jesus. It is to become part of him----or, as he said, to abide in him.
Deepak Chopra
#36. I was never a 'homer', a broadcaster who cheers the home team. Some fans don't like that. But my job wasn't to cheer. My job was to broadcast the game.
Curt Gowdy
#37. I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization.
George Carlin
#38. Twin, I think you should not have dreamt that, for I didn't, and Peter may say we oughtn't to dream differently, being twins, you know.
J.M. Barrie
#39. When we meet Christ and get on the right side of the cross, our goal isn't to get everyone to think we're perfect and have it all together. Rather, this is where we recognize how much we need Jesus and learn to fall more in love with Him every single day.
Perry Noble
#40. Their goal wasn't to stand out because of their differences; it was to fit in because of their talents. Like the men they worked for, and the men they sent hurtling off into the atmosphere, they were just doing their jobs.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#41. I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn't grateful. I wasn't grateful at all. Don't get me wrong. I acted like I was. But I wasn't. To tell you the truth, I was starting to get mad.
Stephen Chbosky
#42. You oughtn't to go in swimming when you're alone," Freddy said. "You might have drowned." "I suppose I might have, at that," said the cow. "But it's such fun when I think I'm going to float, and then I just sink.
Walter R. Brooks
#43. Those who taught you were wrong. I have never set down a "right" or "wrong," a "do" or a "don't." To do so would be to strip you completely of your greatest gift - the opportunity to do as you please.
Neale Donald Walsch
#44. The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
#45. The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
Seth Godin
#46. LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and look at yourself. What a grey life you lead, what a lot you talk unnecessarily.
Anton Chekhov
#47. Sometimes the point isn't to end up with something worth showing the world. Sometimes it's just rehearsal.
Jennifer Weiner
#48. I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.
Mary J. Blige
#49. The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.
Sean Covey
#50. AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception.
Richard Lerner
#51. Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
Henry Rollins
#52. You weren't to know how your touch
with the teaspoon stirred me ...
Tiffany Atkinson
#53. I knew that it was no fault of ours. We weren't to blame, I thought to myself. I could let it go; I could set the burden down, I could be free.
Except, of course, that knowing something in your head is different than feeling it in your heart.
Jennifer Weiner
#54. I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.
Mark Goddard
#55. If your expectations aren't to be the best, then ... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.
Chip Kelly
#56. I hate guns," replied the Doctor. "Which isn't to say that a bit of fantasy violence can't be therapeutic.
Jacqueline Rayner
#57. The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
Seth Godin
#58. Turning to God shouldn't be a last resort; we should look to him for help each day. This isn't to say life will always be easy. There will be struggles, but God will give us the strength to live through them. Don't wait until you're at the end of your rope. Call on God first in every situation.
Anonymous
#59. A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
Anthony Trollope
#60. Um, thanks, she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn't to say Rose wasn't a sucker for accents. She just preferred hers from the other side of Europe.
Richelle Mead
#61. only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can't, to resist deciding anything else.
Laura Dave
#62. Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.
Stephen Covey
#63. Zappos uses call center technology to track average call time per agent. But the goal isn't to reduce this average - it's more important that we make an emotional connection with the customer, rather than just quickly getting them off the phone.
Tony Hsieh
#64. The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#65. My purpose isn't to be confrontational. My purpose is to find out about the world and play myself against it to the extent that it is even conceivable.
Aleksandra Mir
#66. Remember the point of Christianity isn't to learn a lot of truths so you don't need God anymore.
Paul E. Miller
#67. The trick isn't to simply publish a book; the trick is to produce a quality book package to surround the book's content
Hank Quense
#68. I'm pretty sure my purpose here on earth isn't to win arguments or perform hermeneutical gymnastics to impress the wealthiest 2 percent of the world. I don't think God is glorified by tightly crafted arguments wielded as weaponry.
Sarah Bessey
#69. Love wasn't to be measured, much less restricted, by methodology. Love wasn't a method. Love was a faculty of the highest order, imagined or unimagined. Love wasn't an activity. Love was an experience. Love was the second coming of innocence.
Rob Inclan
#70. If we keep asking the wrong questions, we are just going to get better wrong answers. The solution to lack of community isn't to give up on the community.
Erwin McManus
#71. She knew she oughtn't to scold but she couldn't bear such a hyperbole. People couldn't live without food and air or shelter and money. Romantic love was an extra, nice if it came along, but definitely superfluous to the main requirements of existence.
Margot Livesey
#72. My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#73. Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
John Lydon
#74. ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
Ambrose Bierce
#75. It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise.
Jan Struther
#76. Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.
Margaret Way
#77. There 's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 't is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes? Hamlet. V.2
William Shakespeare
#78. The purpose of your vote is't to elect someone, but rather to express your opinion.
Peter Allison
#79. Real, sturdy, lasting peace, peace that doesn't rise and fall with circumstances, isn't to be found in picking apart your life until you have understood all of the components. You will never understand it all because God, for your good and his glory, keeps some of it shrouded in mystery.
Paul David Tripp
#80. Sometimes he thought his real goal wasn't to teach them to write better essays but to get them to think more about what it meant to be human.
Matthew Thomas
#81. God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.
Susan Crandall
#82. We all make mistakes. It's part of growing. The trick isn't to be perfect. It's to find a place of solace in the mind so that it doesn't cane you for trusting the wrong person or following after the wrong dream. All of us fall victim to harmful guile at some point.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#83. The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.
J.M. Porup
#84. Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want
Claude C. Hopkins
#85. The right choice isn't to retire, to simply settle in and invite death. It's to work hard and passionately, but acknowledge the limitations of what one life is capable of.
Jeff Goins
#86. Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.)
Samuel Beckett
#87. One of my core beliefs is that everything happens for a reason and some things just aren't to my taste. All the things that happen in my life are divinely inspired and they happen for a purpose.
John Assaraf
#88. Comics ... are sometimes four-legged and sometimes two-legged and sometimes fly and sometimes don't ... to employ a metaphor as mixed as the medium itself, defining comics entails cutting a Gordian-knotted enigma wrapped in a mystery ...
Robert C. Harvey
#89. Your job isn't to make money. It's to find a problem that needs solving.
Robert Kiyosaki
#90. All of which isn't to say that Jeremy Fitzgerald did the right thing or the wrong thing. It's only to say this: love always changes everything.
Nicola Yoon
#91. The point of overcoming great challenges isn't to make a million dollars or change the world. The point is to gain strength and wisdom within.
Kevin Cole
#92. No more stalemates because they thought her unqualified and unhinged.
No more tiptoeing around a room because women oughtn't to run. To shout. To rule.
And above all: no more blighted regrets.
Susan Dennard
#93. I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
V.E Schwab
#94. Do you pray Lawrence?"
"I don't do you?"
"I used to until I realized God is deaf. Now ever time I kneel, it isn't to pray.
Mia Asher
#95. I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
Eddie Marsan
#96. Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist.
Al Gore
#97. Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art.
Christo
#99. My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.
Marilyn Manson
#100. She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
Neil Gaiman
