George Eliot Quotes

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

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• Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Election
  • Depend
  • Duck

• Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Growth
  • Depend
  • Global

• I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Me
  • Fashion
  • Depend

• Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Aesthetic

• We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Depend

• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Friendship
  • Depend
  • Depth

• But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Voice
  • Act
  • Depend

• There's various scenarios and interpretations about that urgency. I think first we have to get the facts. There are too many interpretations of the facts, and those scenarios could change based on the variables incorporated in those projections.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Interpretation
  • Urgency
  • Scenario

• Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Absolutely
  • Meanings

• So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Words
  • Difficult
  • Meanings

• My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Work
  • Give

• Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Necessity
  • Interpretation
  • Not A Fact

• 'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.

  

  Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Media
  • Interpretation
  • No Return

• I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Interpretation

• If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Trouble
  • Understood
  • Interpretation

• When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Effect
  • Line
  • Depend

• It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

  

  George Eliot
  • Sex
  • Interpretation
  • Inferiority

• You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend on Captain Patterson's sex appeal.

  

  Charles Beaumont
  • Lives
  • Depend
  • Sex Appeal

• When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of the imagination, a loss of the mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Imagination
  • Failure
  • Emotions

• Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moment

• I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Service
  • Aptitude

• At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Hope
  • You

• All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

  

  George Eliot
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