Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

Elizabeth Gaskell

• Don't Think
• Trials
• Tale

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• I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.

  

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• I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.

  

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• Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

  

  Jackie Gleason
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• I have candy around my bed. I just kinda like reach over and eat it and then go back to sleep, no problem.

  

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• What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

  

  John Travolta
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• Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Great
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• People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.

  

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• To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
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• A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Pleasure
  • Lifetime

• The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
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• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Win
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• I have done some things that I'm very proud of. I don't think you can say any more than that, really.

  

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  • Don't Think

• I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Important
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• No member of any 'grouping' should be judged by the activity of some other individual in that same grouping.

  

  Tulsi Gabbard
  • Judged
  • Other
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• Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Don't Think
  • Trials
  • Tale