T. S. Eliot Quotes

I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

T. S. Eliot

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• The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

  

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• I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.

  

  Nathan Lane
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• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

  

  Tamara Mellon
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  • Own
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• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
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• I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
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• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
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• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
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• Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

  

  Rachel True
  • Why
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• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Career
  • Want

• My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Way
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• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Bed

• Stay calm and aggressive.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Calm
  • Stay
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• I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Party
  • Everyone
  • Table

• The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Children
  • Want
  • Government

• Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
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• You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Relationship

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Great
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• No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

  

  James Boswell
  • Men
  • Hero
  • Boys

• Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Honor
  • Glory
  • Image

• I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heaven
  • Honor
  • Hero