George Eliot Quotes
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.
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There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
