T. S. Eliot Quotes
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.T. S. Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
J. William Fulbright -
We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
Faran Tahir -
Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
Yitzhak Shamir -
I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.
Natsuki Takaya -
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden -
We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
Harold E. Varmus -
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
Aasif Mandvi -
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
Daisaku Ikeda -
In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.
Octavia E. Butler -
The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
And understand: class differences will not save you.
H. Rap Brown
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The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.
F. Sionil Jose -
For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
Kevin Spacey -
Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
Kevin Spacey -
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
Aaron Allston -
Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
Louis Nizer -
I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.
Kanye West
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[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.
L. Neil Smith -
We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.
Carre Otis -
All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.
William Nicholson -
You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
I would like to collaborate with Lana Del Rey . She just has the perfect voice! I love it.
Martin Garrix Area21 -
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
T. S. Eliot