George Eliot Quotes

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

George Eliot

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• In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Community
  • Fate
  • Impossible

• Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Thought
  • Dying
  • Cancer

• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • You
  • Hands
  • Fate

• I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Great
  • Ambition
  • Fate

• 'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Nature
  • Lost

• A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

  

  Otto Bauer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Community

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Path
  • Fate
  • Battle

• It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Process
  • Fate

• There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Taken
  • Fate

• In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror; Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth, And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest, And you shall know that guest, And read the authentic message of his eyes.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Eyes

• A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause?

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Country
  • Fate
  • Brave

• Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men
  • Fate

• Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death 'He is going to pay his debt to society,' but: 'They are going to cut off his head.' It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Death
  • Society

• The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Beautiful
  • Fate
  • Theory

• If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Poverty
  • Fate

• Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.

  

  Chrysippus
  • Character
  • True
  • Nature

• Homo qui scit omnia bona et omnia vera, quotcunque sciri possunt, et non fugit mala, nihil scit

  

  Emanuel Swedenborg

• While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Market
  • U.S.
  • Foreclosures

• For nearly twenty of his years in London, he was known as a close supporter of the communists. People change their minds, but Mr. Menon's recent speeches do not suggest that he has changed his. I should guess that be is one of that considerable band of people in important positions in the free world who, though not technically party members, are in fact disciplined communists. Even if this is disputed, it will be agreed that there is something anomalous in a convinced partisan of the aggressor masquerading as a neutral mediator, and contriving so regularly to serve the aggressor's purposes. I hope people will not think I am suffering from a conspiracy mania; after all, Communism is a conspiracy.

  

  Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon
  • People
  • Changed
  • London

• Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

  

  George Eliot
  • Fate
  • Breast
  • Arrows