George Eliot Quotes

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

Quotes to Explore
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I like sci-fi.
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I used to waterski on the Niagara River.
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In this life, I've learned to be patient. And I'm still learning... Even now, I wish things would go quicker.
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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
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Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight.
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The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force.
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
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My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.
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I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.
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President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.
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The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression - we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.
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There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I'm sorry, there isn't really a third category; it's just that a workable list needs a minimum of three items, I feel.
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Kids are truthful by nature.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.
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Sometimes, months elapse before we've completed the song completely. There's no set rule. Something inside of you says - 'now you can present it!' If one of us feels it's not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don't present it.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.