George Eliot Quotes

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

George Eliot

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• I would describe my sound as classic Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Sound
  • Classic
  • Describe

• Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Banking

• I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Kind

• Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Everyone
  • System

• I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Problems
  • Feminist

• Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Family
  • Google
  • Soviet

• Nothing wrong with making money.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Money
  • Nothing
  • Making Money

• If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Son

• Let's face it: fitness is boring. But it's critical to be extremely dedicated to whatever you decide to take up to achieve a desired result. There's no way you are going to get there without dedication, which is the key for me.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Achieve
  • Boring
  • Fitness

• Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,denn das Glück ist immer da.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • America

• A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

  

  Aristotle
  • Society
  • State
  • Noble

• I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.

  

  Margaret Mead

• All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

  

  Donna Leon
  • School

• My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Money
  • Proud

• Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Racism

• It's funny: I like being surprised as a reader, so it's difficult for me to spoil my own stuff.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Funny

• We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

  

  Chris Noth
  • People
  • Kids
  • Food

• Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Humanity
  • Gravitation
  • Law Of Love

• Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Moments

• There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • American
  • History
  • Past

• Hold on to your salah, because if you lose that, you will lose everything else.

  

  Umar
  • Ifs
  • Loses

• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

  

  George Eliot
  • Humanity
  • Sunshine
  • Smiles