George Eliot Quotes
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. How can we ever be satisfied without them until our feelings are deadened?
Quotes to Explore
-
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
-
When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
-
I'm kind of a private person.
-
Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
-
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
-
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
-
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
-
Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
-
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
-
I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
-
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
-
I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
-
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
-
Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
-
I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
-
All I ever wanted to do is make music.
-
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
-
I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
-
I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
-
Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
-
A. L. Vijay asked if I could dance, and I just said yes. I didn't tell him the only dancing I had done was on nights out in Liverpool. He said he would arrange workshops and help me with the scripts and the language. He liked the fact that I was English but had an Indian look.
-
Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right?
-
Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."
-
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. How can we ever be satisfied without them until our feelings are deadened?
