George Eliot Quotes

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

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• The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • House
  • Freedom

• 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Mind
  • Day
  • Myself

• Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • High
  • Smart
  • Youth

• I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Kitchen

• Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Best
  • Honest
  • Discussions

• I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Good
  • Think
  • Limited

• When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Think
  • Start

• Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Book
  • American
  • History

• You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Fate
  • Try
  • Down

• I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Things
  • Sing
  • Hats

• The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Jesus

• For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • People
  • God
  • Faith

• For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Truth

• We are all in natural high, It was better than dope or booze or anything.

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • Dope
  • Booze

• I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Learn
  • Inspiration

• The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Destruction
  • Protects
  • Battery

• I don't want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don't want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • God
  • Want

• Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

  

  George Eliot
  • Build
  • Decay
  • Mansion