George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'
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Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
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I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.
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Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.
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It is easier to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.
