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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• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
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  • Names

• 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
  • Eyes
  • 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
  • Up
  • Long
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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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  • Ears
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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
  • House
  • Cold
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• When I was shooting in Pollachi, I had tried out a lot of local food, most of them I don't remember the names of.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Remember
  • Food
  • Names

• 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
  • Ears

• 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
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• Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

  

  Christina Aguilera
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• Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

  

  John Travolta
  • Believe
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• Eyes never see, Ears never hear, when you are emotional

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Eyes
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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
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• 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
  • Time
  • Character
  • Past

• The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Humanity
  • Should
  • Names

• The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and thirsty, and dissatisfied, till it comes to Christ. It is only they who hear Christ's voice, and follow Him, and feed on Him by faith, who are 'filled.'.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sometimes
  • Calling
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• I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned.

  

  Nora May French
  • People
  • Ideas
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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.

  

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