George Eliot Quotes

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

George Eliot

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• I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Brother

• That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Education

• I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Moving
  • New
  • Direction

• An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Children
  • Education

• I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Me
  • Always
  • Feel

• Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Powerful

• Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn’t get all its oil from OPEC.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Strong

• The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the Night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • High
  • Free

• The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • People

• My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

  

  Louis Susman
  • Art
  • Wife

• Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

  

  David Deutsch
  • Good
  • Science
  • Light

• I love drama. I love to play an arc.

  

  Dee Wallace
  • Drama

• Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes - it's called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method of engaging with the actual world, just as pretending to know what a character might eat does not a novel make - much less make that make-believe real.

  

  Kevin Young
  • World
  • Believe
  • Real

• When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Done

• Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

  

  Christopher Heyerdahl
  • Life
  • World
  • Ironic

• Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.

  

  Marguerite Moreau
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.

  

  Jeff Merkley
  • Up
  • Job
  • Father

• The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

  

  Joichi Ito
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Democracy

• Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Love
  • Mystery
  • Auxiliaries

• I made my position clear to the people of Broxtowe: that I would continue to make the case for the single market.

  

  Anna Soubry
  • Position
  • Case
  • Single Market

• I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it's truly reckless.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Music
  • Business
  • Career

• Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

  

  George Eliot
  • Auxiliaries