George Eliot Quotes

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness;

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• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Style

• When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Dance

• Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.

  

  Mara Liasson
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  • Women
  • Home

• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Duties

• Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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  • Business
  • War

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
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  • Acting
  • Loved

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
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  • Movies

• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Way
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• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

  Aaron Neville
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  • Place
  • New

• Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
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• I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

  

  Natalie Portman
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• You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

  

  Sai Baba
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• Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Men
  • Today
  • Doubt

• We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Live
  • You

• This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happiness
  • Need
  • Immortality

• Whenever anybody that I trusted brought along some new chemical, I would open my mouth and off I'd go.

  

  Ram Dass

• In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Money

• I never actually said 'Ooh, you dirty rat.'

  

  James Cagney
  • Dirty

• I believe in miracles, but I trust in Jesus. If you believe the Bible, you know that God is a miracle-working God. And God is not limited in any degree nor any respect. He is totally sovereign. Do you believe that? I hope you do. Believe in miracles, but don’t put your faith in miracles. Put your faith and your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • God
  • Believe
  • Hope

• Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness;

  

  George Eliot
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