George Eliot Quotes

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

George Eliot

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• It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Live
  • Real
  • Family

• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Feelings
  • Say
  • Texas

• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I want to be acting until the day I die!

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Die
  • Day
  • Acting

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Yourself

• Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Happy
  • Yourself

• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • World
  • Energy
  • Change

• The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Freedom

• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Anything
  • States
  • Collective

• Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Death
  • Change

• Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

  

  Abigail Spencer
  • Life
  • Family
  • Career

• I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Funny

• Acting is a form of confusion.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Acting
  • Form
  • Confusion

• When I think of Afropunk, I think of the best of the best. I think of, like, D'Angelo.

  

  SZA

• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

  

  Buchi Emecheta
  • World
  • Women
  • History

• Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour.

  

  Clark Gable
  • Women
  • Age
  • Hair

• Years ago, I couldn't get arrested in commercials because of my look: 'Is he Jewish, Hispanic, or African-American?' I ended up doing voiceover work, which has been great. Honestly, I can't complain.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

  

  George Eliot
  • Women
  • Sorrow
  • Speech