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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head grown slightly bal...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test o...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory out of desir...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirrin...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke ...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it ...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't ...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is w...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT All cases are unique and very similar to others.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT I said to my soul
Be still
And wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a p...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to esca...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT In the small circle of pain within the skull
You still shall tramp and tread one endless round TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we star...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Only tho...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, adv...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT There is no method but to be very intelligent.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of man...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time futur...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never ...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, s...
T.S. ELIOT (THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT) This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. ELIOT (THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT) NEVER be too busy to pray!
TS CASEY Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that cont...
CLIFF STEARNS In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cl...
CLIFF STEARNS The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that t...
CLIFF STEARNS Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give...
CLIFF STEARNS The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of t...
CLIFF STEARNS Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ens...
CLIFF STEARNS Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of...
CLIFF STEARNS I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own...
CLIFF STEARNS We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating bud...
CLIFF STEARNS At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are criti...
CLIFF STEARNS On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous...
CLIFF STEARNS I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together i...
CLIFF STEARNS What we're looking at now is international tribunals which would have some authority over state gove...
ALAN STEARNS But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about...
CLIFF STEARNS The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology...
CLIFF STEARNS What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother
T...
RICHARD STEARNS When the uranium mining boom crashed in the '80s, it really crashed and there wasn't much cleanup.
DIANE STEARNS The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.
CLIFF STEARNS I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some c...
CLIFF STEARNS Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must...
CLIFF STEARNS This is legislation that consumers deserve if we are to help them and our economy defeat the growing...
CLIFF STEARNS I think it's reasonable to assume that if you don't test, you won't find out.
CLIFF STEARNS DeLay has a lot of power, ... I always believe power should be diffused.
CLIFF STEARNS That we can agree on the penalties is very important, ... It's good news for trying to pass a steroi...
CLIFF STEARNS It's not clear how cable operators could insert a label,
CLIFF STEARNS I think to be prudent, less than $1 billion is more appropriate,
CLIFF STEARNS This is a promise and not a policy, ... I've dealt with them before in a hearing and they made promi...
CLIFF STEARNS Even if cloning begins with a benign purpose, it could lead to scientific categories of superior and...
CLIFF STEARNS There's a subtle undertow here about buy America, ... This bill has picked up a little bit of steam ...
CLIFF STEARNS Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in s...
CLIFF STEARNS The health effects of uranium really haven't been studied since the Manhattan Project (the developme...
DIANE STEARNS Essentially, if you get a heavy metal stuck on DNA, you can get a mutation.
DIANE STEARNS The books are piled up in our hallways right now.
ELIZABETH STEARNS She's ready to go as soon as we arrange the transportation.
ELIZABETH STEARNS My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interes...
CLIFF STEARNS First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a ...
CLIFF STEARNS This is the latest step in bringing this case to a successful conclusion. We look forward to the con...
EUGENE STEARNS This is an extraordinary achievement for the dealers. After 14 years of litigation, Exxon has exhaus...
EUGENE STEARNS The threats haven't worked and the U.N. and the Congolese army have failed to get rid of all these a...
JASON STEARNS The population has grown weary of a transitional government that is more concerned with personal enr...
JASON STEARNS There's a need for a neutral force to calm the population. The Congolese army is a nascent, fledglin...
JASON STEARNS Katanga is not on the political map, which is why such a massive humanitarian crisis can go ignored.
JASON STEARNS There are many weapons that have been distributed to civilians and there are factions who don't want...
JASON STEARNS These are high risk operations and unfortunately sometimes people get killed.
JASON STEARNS As long as the boys are playing, we are cheering. We're here Aug. 1 and we're here through to the en...
LISA STEARNS At the first parents' meeting I'll ask if there is anything I should know about a child. And I'll he...
LISA STEARNS The national rules say each team can have a head coach and four assistants. We have a great group an...
LISA STEARNS We have a great group. We try to make everyone feel that they are part of the team. I think that is ...
LISA STEARNS Our social network is a win-win for our users and our commercial partners. The network's features at...
ROBERT STEARNS Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert ...
HAROLD EDMUND STEARNS You're only a dog, old fellow; a dog, and you've had your day; But never a friend of all my friends ...
JULIAN STEARNS CUTLER Guilty people apologize and also take steps to avoid repetition. Shame, in contrast, is a more globa...
PETER N. STEARNS Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -...
PETER N. STEARNS The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the i...
HAROLD EDMUND STEARNS When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of th...
HAROLD EDMUND STEARNS We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special ef...
HAROLD EDMUND STEARNS Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the ha...
HAROLD EDMUND STEARNS The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-...
ELIOT SPITZER The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrat...
ELIOT ENGEL Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operation...
ELIOT SPITZER We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explo...
ELIOT ENGEL Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to esca...
GEORGE ELIOT Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think t...
GEORGE ELIOT What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOT If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass gr...
GEORGE ELIOT Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOT What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen ea...
GEORGE ELIOT Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
GEORGE ELIOT Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
GEORGE ELIOT Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a mar...
GEORGE ELIOT It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot It takes time to build a ca...
GEORGE ELIOT Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
CHARLES ELIOT A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into part...
GEORGE ELIOT That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
GEORGE ELIOT The law's made to take care o' raskills.
GEORGE ELIOT There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOT Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
GEORGE ELIOT What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
GEORGE ELIOT Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
GEORGE ELIOT My mind may be American but my heart is British.
T.S. ELIOT When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOT Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are m...
GEORGE ELIOT I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and i...
GEORGE ELIOT I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
GEORGE ELIOT The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel...
ALEXANDER ELIOT Distracted from distraction by distraction
T.S. ELIOT Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sou...
GEORGE ELIOT For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice...
T.S. ELIOT A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, know...
GEORGE ELIOT What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections...
T.S. ELIOT Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
GEORGE ELIOT It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain ...
GEORGE ELIOT There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
GEORGE ELIOT No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
GEORGE ELIOT What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOT It is never too late to be what you might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOT Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOT Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOT Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T.S. ELIOT And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...
GEORGE ELIOT I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husband...
GEORGE ELIOT I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do bet...
GEORGE ELIOT Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
GEORGE ELIOT Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
GEORGE ELIOT Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOT I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to inf...
GEORGE ELIOT Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in go...
GEORGE ELIOT Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, brin...
GEORGE ELIOT If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass gr...
GEORGE ELIOT It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by...
GEORGE ELIOT Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
ELIOT PORTER I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is fa...
GEORGE ELIOT With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outwor...
GEORGE ELIOT Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls...
GEORGE ELIOT It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads ...
GEORGE ELIOT Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in...
GEORGE ELIOT Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to ...
GEORGE ELIOT Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
GEORGE ELIOT The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOT

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