Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: — 'Take care. — If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
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• Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

  

  Victoria Abril
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  • Learn
  • Ears

• I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am outside, I am going to have my ears covered up.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Dark
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• It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Bad
  • Two
  • Sides

• Music isn`t for the eyes, it`s for the ears.

  

  Adele
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  • Eyes
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• I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Years
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• Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

  

  John Travolta
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• Eyes never see, Ears never hear, when you are emotional

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
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• Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Democracy

• If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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• And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

  

  W. W. Rouse Ball
  • Age
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• I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.

  

  Nalini Singh
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  • Names
  • Naked

• As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
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• Boosie is like the Lebron James when it comes to rapping, so you know if he feels it he's going in, and he gives 100 percent.

  

  Louis Mario Freese
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• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
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• I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Support
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• Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: — 'Take care. — If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
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