George Eliot Quotes

Trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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I have no trouble sleeping.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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You all had something to do with keeping me employed.
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Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.
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The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
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I'm more worried about you," she said. "You and trouble..." "yeah." She heard the smile in his voice. "We're like that.
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Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.
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Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.
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The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.
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I grew up in a little town called Uckfield, and there's not much to do - so we used to fight a lot. I was never in serious trouble, but we used to have the local bobby round the house saying, 'Rory's been up to this again.'
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For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that’s just my day, not my week.
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Trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.