George Eliot Quotes
Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
Quotes to Explore
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
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For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.
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But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.
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Ours has been a special relationship for a long time and I'm really happy about coming back and playing.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Do you have no sense of self-preservation?
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[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!
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If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
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[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.
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I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the old man vehemently. "Not only are they devilishly cruel but they are not even common sense. They do not lesson the evil in the world, they increase it, by making those who handle these cruelties as wicked as those who suffer them. No, I'm wrong, more wicked, for there is always some expiation made in the endurance of suffering and none at all in the infliction of it.
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I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly.
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A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.
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Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
