George Eliot Quotes

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

George Eliot

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• When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Up
  • Running
  • Military

• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Family
  • English

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Age
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!

  

  Gage Golightly
  • Working
  • Answer
  • Phone

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Time
  • Running
  • Ego

• I can't imagine working without and audience.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Working
  • Imagine
  • Without

• Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Best

• I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Working
  • Speaking
  • CIA

• I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

  

  Fleur East
  • Running
  • Body
  • Yoga

• Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Working
  • Just
  • Hobby

• California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Running

• When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Working
  • Research

• I'm sick of running away from things.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Running
  • Sick
  • Away

• I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Working

• Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • People
  • Running
  • Learning

• I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

  

  Kathryn Budig
  • Balance
  • Lines
  • Bits

• As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Child

• One should not interpret the word 'Revolution' in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Revolution

• I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Fantasy
  • Human Spirit
  • Designs

• You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

  

  George Eliot
  • Running
  • Working
  • Horseback