T. S. Eliot Quotes

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

T. S. Eliot

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• I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Independent

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Home
  • Places
  • African-American

• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Family
  • Black
  • Fans

• I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Republican
  • Conservative

• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Contribution

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Done
  • Man
  • Reflection

• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Power
  • Inspiration
  • Beauty

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Smart
  • Emotion
  • Face

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Done
  • You
  • Doubt

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Road

• That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Again
  • Public Domain

• My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it’s recorded.

  

  Ben Harper
  • World
  • Song
  • Band

• A convert, if he converts through the Orthodox, he has the Jewish gene. If he doesn't convert through the Orthodox, he doesn't have the Jewish gene. As simple as that.

  

  Eli Yishai
  • Simple

• A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

  

  Drew Houston
  • People
  • Great

• I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Men
  • Words
  • Quiet

• For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good