George Eliot Quotes

Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.

George Eliot

• Universe
• Mirror
• Deeds
• Pulse Of Time

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• The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Game

• Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Photographer

• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Universe

• Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• Great acts are made up of small deeds.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Up
  • Great
  • Small

• Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Character

• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Own
  • Deeds

• Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Smile

• The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Mirror

• Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Why
  • Universe
  • Enemy

• A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self - in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

  

  Clare Boothe Luce
  • Different
  • Eyes
  • Mirror

• The conventional Big Bang theory says nothing about where all the matter came from. The theory really assumes that for every particle that we see in the universe today, there was, at the very beginning, at least some precursor particle, if not the same particle, with no explanation of where all those particles came from.

  

  Alan Guth
  • Today
  • Universe
  • Beginning

• It was a glaring omission, a sign of cosmic sloppiness. Not even that, Vasko corrected himself. It was a sign of cosmic obliviousness. The universe didn’t know what was happening here. It didn’t know and it didn’t care. It didn’t even know that it didn’t know.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Universe

• I don't believe pumpkin pie is even made from pumpkin. I mean, how can something that smells that shitty make a pie so sweet? There's not enough sugar in the universe.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Sweet

• Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Science

• Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back at you.

  

  Byron Katie
  • Thinking
  • Mirror

• The harsh mathematics of polio makes it clear:

  

  Bill Gates

• At midnight they can come into your room and take you away. They can put a black hood on you, take you to a secret place and interrogate you, trying to stop what you’re doing. They threaten people, your family, saying: 'Your children won’t find jobs.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Children
  • Trying

• You can call it a miracle or a legend or whatever you want to. I just know that on that day, Brett Favre was larger than life.

  

  Brett Favre
  • Life
  • Miracle
  • Legend

• I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Remember
  • Two
  • Wells

• Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.

  

  George Eliot
  • Universe
  • Mirror
  • Deeds