George Eliot Quotes
So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.
Quotes to Explore
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
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I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
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I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.
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I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.
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I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.
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May the best of your today's be the worst of your tomorrow's
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Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end. . .
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So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.
