George Eliot Quotes
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.George Eliot
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
Finn Wittrock -
I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
Nate Silver -
At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
Pat Gillick -
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
Yann Tiersen -
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
Patrick Swayze -
I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
Carine Roitfeld
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I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
Imogen Heap -
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
O. Winston Link -
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde -
Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.
Benjamin Graham -
I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.
Mary Steenburgen -
I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.
Jodelle Ferland
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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
Maya Angelou -
There are big winners in Paul Ryan's 'Roadmap,' and you can guess who they are. He would cut taxes for the wealthy, completely eliminate the corporate income tax, and create a value added tax.
Jan Schakowsky -
There's a lot less time in the day when you're in a relationship.
Ella McMahon -
Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.
Fred Upton -
I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.
Kelly Ripa -
May I meet him with one tooth and it aching, and one eye to be seeing seven and seventy divils in the twists of the road, and one old timber leg on him to limp into the scalding grave. There he is now crossing the strands, and that the Lord God would send a high wave to wash him from the world.
John Millington Synge
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How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
Alphonsus Liguori -
Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
Plato -
Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources while Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future.
Abdoulaye Wade -
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
P.B. Kerr -
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
George Eliot