George Eliot Quotes

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

George Eliot

• Death
• Feel
• Perfect Love

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• The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Approach

• It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Laugh

• Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Death
  • Child

• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Feel

• I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Up
  • Like
  • Feel

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Death
  • Nothing
  • Jump

• I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Feel

• Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it.

  

  Raekwon
  • Feel
  • Members
  • Brand

• I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • Want
  • Feel

• Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Death

• I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Feel
  • Find
  • Trouble

• I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Death
  • Blame

• Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Feel
  • Learned
  • Students

• Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Him

• The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Great
  • Family
  • Business

• Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Feel

• (Carmine Crocco) In such a crowd, so numerous and composed of such heterogeneous elements, it might have appeared almost absurd to look for discipline; but perfect discipline there was, for, whatever his other qualities might be, Crocco most undoubtedly was a 'ruler of men'. His word in that band was law, and the punishment of disaffection was death.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Men
  • Death
  • Law

• Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

  

  Anouk Aimee
  • Death
  • Moving
  • Cosmic

• Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.

  

  Homer
  • Death
  • Fight
  • Confusion

• Ah cannot we As well as cocks and lions jocund be, After such pleasures?

  

  John Donne

• Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

  

  George Eliot
  • Death
  • Feel
  • Perfect Love