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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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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.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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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.
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My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me.
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If Janet Jackson does the story of her life and I'm still young enough, I am there. No one can pull her off like I can. I have a dance background. I'm definitely not cutting an album anytime soon, but I can lip-synch all day. I can't sing, but I can act like it very well.
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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
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The sleep of reason produces monsters.
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Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.
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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
