Alive Quote by T. S. Eliot Download Open image “We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.” — T. S. Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alive Expectations Fighting Triumph
We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Isn't the smallest chance of victory enough of a reason for us to keep on fighting? The world needs us. — Jason Frank Copy Share Image
What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The things we fight for are the things that we keep with us forever.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
No Matter What We Do And How Much We Fight, it'll Always Pull Us In — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we fight with those we love, it is not victory that we seek, but peace. — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
Life is not a battle that we have to keep fighting for everything, but about survival, make sure you help others survive as well.… — Sanji-Paul Arvind Copy Share Image
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive. — James Haven Copy Share Image
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image