George Eliot Quotes

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

George Eliot

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• The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Mystery

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Girl

• Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Education
  • Will
  • Watch

• As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Actor

• Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Good
  • Jealous
  • Pure

• The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Opinions
  • Serve

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Learn
  • Understand

• Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Pure

• Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Money
  • Wood
  • Corners

• The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Powerful
  • Personality

• As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Know
  • Proud
  • Band

• I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Done
  • March
  • Mickey Mouse

• I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Talk
  • Careful
  • Qualified

• The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Child

• Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Brain

• They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

  

  Dixie Lee Ray
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• Only the free mind knows what Love is.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Free

• I love trade. I love trade. First, it's economic freedom. It's the freedom to buy, sell, and compete with as little government interference as possible. Secondly, it's a jobs issue.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Freedom

• Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Knowledge
  • Picture

• The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

  

  George Eliot
  • Death
  • Journey
  • Working