George Eliot Quotes
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name. … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler -
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess -
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
Jack Vance -
It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
Tabitha Soren -
I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
Laura Harrier
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
Randi Weingarten -
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
Randy Harrison -
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack Obama -
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
Barton Gellman -
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung -
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
Patricia Ireland -
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
Orson Scott Card -
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
Aaron Neville -
Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.
Debbie Reynolds -
I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.
Lorraine Adams -
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
Bob Geldof -
Just as we are enhancing the customer side of our marketplace, we are also looking for ways to increase our contributor expense.
Jon Oringer -
There is never any justification for violence. There is no any justification for hatred. There is no any justification for murder. Those who indulge in violence for whatever reason are themselves changed, and the purity of their purpose adulterated.
Jane Roberts -
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name. … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
George Eliot