Burnt Norton Quotes

#1. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened. - T. S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton

Blake Crouch

#2. You must know your part in the body of Christ and play it

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#4. Soot and sorrow: the Night Market's invocation of desperate seriousness, of doom and disaster.

Nick Harkaway

#5. When we were doing 'Sports Night' and 'West Wing' at the same time, I thought I was the luckiest guy in the world because my two interests were politics and sports.

Thomas Schlamme

#6. The rest of the time he entertained all the guilt that wished to call, carried in by the wind through the darkness, to enter his spirit ...

Colm Toibin

#7. inclinations prompted me to. But being one day at Hull, where

Daniel Defoe

#8. A person who is impartial, fair, calm, gentle, serene, accepting, and openhearted is indeed a refuge.

Karen Armstrong

#9. Marvel makes you feel like 'Iron Man' will show up at your front door to kill you if you say the wrong thing.

J. August Richards

#10. In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation ... , I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.

Franklin Pierce

#11. We must be fond of the world, even in order to change it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#12. People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

Robert Towne

#13. It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.

Charles Osgood

#14. Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It's about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.

John Spence