George Eliot Quotes

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

George Eliot

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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  • France

• The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Band
  • Guys
  • Instruments

• I'd love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Kind
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  • Rainbow

• To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Profound
  • Danger

• Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Present
  • Danger

• The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Playing
  • Instruments
  • Notions

• I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rock

• There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• ‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Danger
  • Terrorists
  • Bomb

• When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Love
  • Bible

• We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Danger
  • Forgetting

• The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Mind
  • Integrity

• For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Work
  • High
  • Kind

• A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

  

  Margaret Wise Brown
  • Good
  • Book
  • Picture

• When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Danger
  • Conditions

• There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.

  

  Virginia Gildersleeve
  • Achieve
  • Danger
  • Sexism

• Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Feelings
  • Danger
  • DIssociates

• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Criticism
  • Made
  • Prejudice

• The writer must proudly consent to bear his own date, knowing that there are no masterpieces in eternity, but only works in history, and that they survive only to the degree that they have left the past behind them and heralded the future.

  

  Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Future
  • Writer
  • Date

• Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

  

  George Eliot
  • Danger
  • Instruments
  • Melodies