T. S. Eliot Quotes

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

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• God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • God
  • Fight
  • Strength

• There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Up
  • Deep

• I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Black
  • Simple

• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Political
  • Finance
  • Bank

• I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Action
  • Doing

• I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Care
  • Lucky
  • Medical

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Solitude
  • Bond

• Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Life
  • Me
  • Company

• When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I get a great high from writing.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Great
  • Writing
  • High

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Nature
  • Like
  • Where

• If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling comfortable with yourself, than that kind of shows. I think that as cheesy as the pageant industry can be seen at times, it actually does help women - boosting their confidence and growing into their own. I have to give it credit for that.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Women
  • Help
  • Beautiful

• Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

  

  Yves Tanguy
  • Work
  • Community
  • Geography

• If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Movie
  • You
  • Next

• I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Writer

• I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.

  

  Claire Foy
  • People
  • Country

• In New York, lights are on the whole night; there are offices where not a single person is working, but all lights are on. The street lights at the White House are lit all the day. Why? And we are being told not to use coal.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • Why
  • House
  • Night

• I think that fiction has a certain power.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Power

• There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas... I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with recently is advertising.

  

  Peter Cook
  • Up
  • Time

• Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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