T. S. Eliot People Quotations

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

People find a way in which they can say something.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence

You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.