T.S. Eliot Quotes

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

The big lie out there, the big lie that the Republicans propagate day after day, is that cutting marginal rates for those at the top is going to create jobs. It's simply not true.

The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

The bow always strung ... will not do.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.