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T. S. Eliot Quotes

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965

Topics

Passion Character Knowledge Violent

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Opportunity Scarcity Because Most

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

Love Music Listen Lot I Love

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Thought Radio Guy Would

The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.

Life Future Fire Youth World Warm

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.

Work Mother Women Son Freedom Grind

It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in your brain.

Brain Interesting Way Outside Your

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Success Failure Process Learn View

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Josephus Daniels

Man Defeat Never He Any Until

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

War Mind Action Cold Thinking Look

I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'

Culture People Blame Building Think

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

Dermot Mulroney

College Thought Trying Actor Never

My lawyer is telling me I have to take some responsibility about the welfare of the children. Do I want the kids? Hell no. Does it look good for me to ask for them? Absolutely. I don't want to look like the woman who gave away her kids and just forgot about them.

Good Children Responsibility Woman

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