George Eliot Quotes
Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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I've met some incredible people who I really admire.
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With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.
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I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
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Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
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People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.
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I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.
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I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions.
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Forgiveness means that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God's love in our hearts.
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Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
