George Eliot Quotes

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

George Eliot

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• You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Important
  • Rest

• I trust no one totally.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Trust
  • Totally

• I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Me
  • Cold

• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Internet
  • Big

• You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Remember
  • You
  • Working

• So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Know

• We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Play
  • Plan

• I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Me
  • Football
  • Forget

• Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Good
  • Try
  • Make

• In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • American
  • Myself
  • Explore

• The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Soul

• The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Different
  • Universe

• '‘Not everything that walks is a man,’' said the boulder conversationally, '‘and not everything that lies quiet is a stone,’ as the wolf remarked when the serpent bit him.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Lies
  • Wolf

• The disconnected impressions which we derive from life form a kind of knowledge ‘in growth,’ as Bacon called it; an over-early and peremptory attempt to digest this knowledge into a system tends, as he suggests, to falsify and distort it.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Growth

• If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Ignorance

• What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

  

  Alcuin
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• Poirot twinkled at her gently.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Logic is concerned with arguments, good and bad. With the docile and the reasonable, arguments are sometimes useful in settling disputes. With the reasonable, this utility attaches only to good arguments. It is the logician’s business to serve the reasonable. Therefore, in the realm of arguments, it is the logician who distinguishes good from bad.

  

  Logic
  • Good
  • Business
  • Bad

• By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Fun
  • Individual
  • Integrity

• More than half of pregnant women in the U.S. are obese, which leads to complications like hypertension, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Women
  • High

• Until you are broken, you don't know what you're made of.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Broken
  • Made

• Ah, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Reason
  • Stills
  • Used

• Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Small

• I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

  

  George Eliot