George Eliot Quotes
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.
Quotes to Explore
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
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No one is born hating others.
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I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.
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Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.
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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
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Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.
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...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.
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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.
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We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.
