George Eliot Quotes

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

George Eliot

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• Pride
• Disappointment
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• Mortals

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• With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Job
  • Fun

• My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Where
  • Manager
  • My Own

• England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Nature
  • Accept
  • Human Nature

• I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Professional
  • My Life

• I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • World
  • Country
  • Alive

• I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • World
  • Parents

• Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Responsibility

• The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Alive

• You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Different
  • America

• As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Children
  • American

• In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Family
  • Drink
  • Dysfunctional

• From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Said
  • View
  • Point Of View

• These, in the day when heaven was falling,The hour when earth’s foundations fled,Followed their mercenary callingAnd took their wages and are dead.Their shoulders held the sky suspended;They stood, and earth’s foundations stay;What God abandoned, these defended,And saved the sum of things for pay.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

  

  Kiran Desai

• The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

  

  Kahlil Gibran

• All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Knowledge

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Mom

• To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • True
  • Me
  • Femininity

• Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

  

  Jean Genet
  • Betrayal

• He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.

  

  Umar
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Way

• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

  

  George Eliot
  • Hurt
  • Pride
  • Disappointment