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
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
-
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.
-
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.
-
In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
-
Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
-
As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
-
Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
-
My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.
-
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
-
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
-
If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
-
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
-
On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.
-
I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.
-
I understood that this is not personal. I came in and I stood for something. For some people, I stood for change they didn’t want. It wasn’t really about me, it was just about the new directions for the academy, the new directions for our world, that are threatening to some people.
-
I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.
-
The post-war 'publish or perish' tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. ... One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
-
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
