George Eliot Quotes

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

George Eliot

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• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • You
  • Working

• In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Work
  • Humanity

• Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Life
  • Side
  • East

• 'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Heart
  • Creation
  • Closest

• I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Leonardo
  • DiCaprio

• I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • School
  • Art
  • Bad

• With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Self-confidence

• When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

  

  Victor Spinetti
  • Life
  • Teach
  • Out

• I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Learned
  • Keep
  • Got

• I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Never
  • Chance
  • Wanted

• The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Children
  • Community
  • Sacrifice

• We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Self

• Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Small

• I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Good
  • Love
  • Sports

• You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Real
  • She
  • You

• Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • American
  • Very
  • Adolescence

• My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Different
  • Job
  • Friends

• The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Personality

• I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Life
  • Inspired

• Opening myself to criticism was a big door to go through. You can be afraid about something your whole life, about being out in public where people know your name but not you, and it can cripple your ability to try new things.

  

  Peggy Rathmann
  • People
  • Life
  • Door

• As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.

  

  Derrick Rose
  • Good
  • God
  • Long

• One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Blindness
  • Carry On