George Eliot Quotes

Inclination snatches argumentsTo make indulgence seem judicious choice.

George Eliot

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • Choose
  • Luxury

• We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Reason

• I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Long
  • Business
  • Working Hard

• I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Look
  • Three
  • Ahead

• I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listening

• Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • May
  • Attention
  • Sound

• When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Hard
  • Really
  • Unfinished

• To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Tennis

• There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Memories
  • Revolution

• I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The Democrats' foreign policy is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. The migration and foreign policy advocated by the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump, is good for Europe and vital for Hungary.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Trump

• I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Think
  • Agenda

• It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Police

• I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Teenager
  • Known
  • Since

• It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Long
  • Country

• Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

  

  Cyril Connolly

• Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say 'We don't know the deal with you. You have no continuity at all. You give us 'Addicted to Love,' and you're a rock n' roll star, then you give us 'She Makes My Day,' and what's that?' But that was a hit, too. It either gets across or it doesn't.

  

  Robert Palmer
  • She
  • Attention
  • Rock

• I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense.

  

  Ann Packer

• For instance, I have never believed that there is only one person for each person in the world. It doesn't make the least sense to me. However, in reality, I fell in love at 45 and I am absolutely certain that my now husband is the only man in the world for me, a truth I find both ridiculous and uplifting.

  

  Philippa Gregory
  • World
  • Truth
  • Reality

• There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.

  

  Hasso Plattner
  • World
  • America
  • Technology

• Inclination snatches argumentsTo make indulgence seem judicious choice.

  

  George Eliot