George Eliot Quotes
The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
Quotes to Explore
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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In 1998, I received treatment for my knee by an Israeli therapist. We spoke about Israel and I mentioned 'Scooterman' and he just froze. It was like he had met Elvis. I thought he was kidding me and then he called his brother, they yelled to each other over the phone, and then I believed him.
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If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.
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I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order.
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No, we believed in ourselves all year. That's the position you want to be in.
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A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail.
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It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.
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If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.
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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
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Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
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If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
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Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is.
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I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
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For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.
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I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
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I've always believed in God. I'm just not so sure he believes in me.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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He kept imagining women like his mother creeping across the border with the hope of being able to make enough to feed themselves and their families, and being murdered by some vigilante who felt he had the right to take the law into his own hands. It was so easy to feel self-righteous and superior when you had a comfortable home, a safe place to live and a full stomach.
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The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
