#led

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#character #diminished #importance #insignificance #knowledge

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#cannot #degree #even #finger #invariably

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#finally #ideal #labelled #point #point of view

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#concerned #cook #far #i #learned

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. ↗

— Black Elk

#clouds #come #drought #earth #gave

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#always #any #called #darkness #day

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled. ↗

— Connie Stevens

#children #decision #fulfilled #had #happily

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#cherish #faith #human #imbecility #led

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him. ↗

— Erik H. Erikson

#baby #being #bring #brings #brought

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#day #encountered #event #life #mind