George Eliot Quotes

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

George Eliot

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• A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Control
  • Woman
  • Gun

• I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Different
  • Book
  • Reading

• You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • King
  • Defeat

• People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

  

  Larry King
  • Person
  • Worst
  • Traffic

• I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Taste

• My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mother
  • Fashion
  • Reason

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Help

• I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Day
  • Exercise
  • Fight

• If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Yourself

• Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • America
  • Think
  • Myself

• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • World
  • Free
  • Wish

• I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Beautiful
  • Clothes
  • Season

• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Tears

• I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Food
  • Traditional

• We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Remember
  • Looking
  • Wait

• Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • River

• There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Age
  • Sex
  • Better

• I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Dad

• All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Space
  • Quiet
  • Behinds

• It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

  

  George Eliot
  • Feel
  • Sky
  • Blind