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

• I'll perform all the way to the grave.

  

  Patti LaBelle

• I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.

  

  George Carey
  • Christian

• Cody is smart. He is driven to be successful. Ultimately, he is someone I trust and respect.

  

  Cael Sanderson
  • Respect
  • Trust
  • Cody

• He kisses me and for that kiss, for that moment, I forget how worried I am. It comes back, of course, but with Caleb, I feel more whole—I am more whole—than I have been since Mom died. I love him. I love him because of who he is, who he really is past what everyone else sees; the lost boy, the druggie, the car thief. I love him because he is strong and caring. I love him because he broke and put himself back together again. I love him because he is beautiful inside and out. I love him for being here with me. I love him for not telling me that everything will be all right. I love him because he knows what life is like, what it can do, and is always honest about it.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Forget
  • Life is
  • Worried

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

  

  George Eliot