George Eliot Quotes

Comments on The Lifted Veil with a motto for it used in the 'Cabinet Edition' of her works (1878), in a letter to John Blackwood (28 February 1873), published in George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals (1885), Vol. 4

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• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Live
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• You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  

  Ice Cube
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  • Work
  • Father

• I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Live
  • Remember

• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  

  Adam Hochschild
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  • History
  • Tradition

• You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
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  • Worry

• We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.

  

  Victoria Moran
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• In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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  • Life
  • My Life

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

  

  Cameron Bright
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  • Know
  • Ocean

• As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
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  • Know
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• Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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  • Healthy

• My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.

  

  Ed Weeks
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  • My Life
  • Mistakes

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

  

  Abel Ferrara
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  • You
  • Doing

• That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

  

  Portia de Rossi
  • Life

• If you’re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you’re reducing significantly the scope of your potential life experience.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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• Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

  

  Usher
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  • Important
  • Trying

• If someone comes to me, any community in the Northern Territory, with a viable economic future, and says, 'We want to be part of a bold new approach,' I'll put them down as a major project, and I'll do everything I can to help them out.

  

  Adam Giles
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• Comments on The Lifted Veil with a motto for it used in the 'Cabinet Edition' of her works (1878), in a letter to John Blackwood (28 February 1873), published in George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals (1885), Vol. 4

  

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