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Human Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate…
- Human kind cannot bear much reality.
- When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his…
- At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I…
- The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
- If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you,…
- We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.
- Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently…
- The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only…
- Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.
- The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation,…
- So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are…
- When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his…
- Macavity, Macavity, there's noone like Macavity, He's broken every human law,he breaks the law of gravity.
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong