George Eliot Quotes

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

George Eliot

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• I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.

  

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• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

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• I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

  

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• Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

  

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• At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

  

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• I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.

  

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• I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

  

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• The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again … It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.

  

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• The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.

  

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• We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God’s truth, the universe at once began to exist.

  

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• Imagine being told that it hadn’t mattered whether the Christians or the Moors got Spain! I can still remember my shock. I got over it fairly quickly, though, because by that time I had learned enough history to know that in the long run it never mattered a damn where any particular race of people planted its collective ass.

  

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• For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

  

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• When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'

  

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• For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.

  

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• Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.

  

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• Princes appear to me to be Fools Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something Else besides Human Life.

  

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• Dad wasn’t there much cos he had three or four jobs. First he was away at sea, later on he worked as an insurance salesman in the day and on a building site in the evening.

  

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• One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

  

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• Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

  

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• Not everybody gets a chance to go fly around the country and spend time in places with people who aren't like them, where, again and again, you realize we're all generally alike.

  

  John Dickerson
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• Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas you look at the finished book and you think, 'Oh, damn it, I should have changed that.' You're never happy. Whereas with a baby, you're happy. If you've got a perfect baby, you're just grateful.

  

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• When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

  

  George Eliot
  • God
  • Burning
  • Brightness