T.S. Eliot Quotes
To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.
So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.
Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.
Fortunately, I'm in a band with people who really like and respect each other personally.That makes this whole experience so much better.
People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.
I think I'm very in touch with nature because I grew up in that surrounding. That's a big part of who I am; I don't know anything different.
I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.
I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.
I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.
I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.
I don't have a lot of self-confidence. I'm getting there. Before I had zero confidence, but it's one of those things you learn and accept.
