George Eliot Quotes

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

George Eliot

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Good
  • War

• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Different
  • Help

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Long
  • Write

• Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Good
  • Great
  • Best

• My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • Good
  • Game
  • Moving

• I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Good
  • Mind
  • School

• The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Good
  • Compassion

• When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Good
  • Story
  • Process

• When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Better

• I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Good
  • Never
  • Math

• I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• I just need to concentrate on each event and accumulate a good score, and hopefully I won't flop in the 800 m. in Gotzis.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Good
  • Need
  • Event

• Hugh, I know I shouldn't even be asking you this, but what we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event-something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world.  Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough-and slow enough-so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down?

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Good
  • Eyes

• I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl?

  

  Anna Sui
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• It’s amazing to have people singing a song back to you on a stage. It’s great to finish recording a song and play it for your friend, and they love it. That feels good. But nothing feels better than when you’ve finished something and you know it’s good, and you know that those other responses will come in time.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's all well and good for other people to do better, but not at our expense, and it won't benefit us.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • People
  • Good
  • Justice

• I knew that Steve Harvey had a good, solid message to share, and I wanted to use my knowledge and skills as a relationship author to help him bring his message to those who were willing to receive it.

  

  Denene Millner
  • Good
  • Help
  • Knowledge

• And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

  

  James MacArthur
  • Good

• We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Life
  • Money
  • Home

• Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

  

  Dennis Weaver
  • Business
  • Earth

• When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Wine

• One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

  

  George Eliot
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Applies