George Eliot Quotes

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

George Eliot

• Integrity
• Minds
• Consequences

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• My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Up
  • Night
  • City

• Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Slavery

• I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Star
  • Really
  • Prince

• Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Adventure

• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • She
  • Guy

• With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Audience

• There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Night

• I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Jazz

• In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Success
  • Dream
  • Fear

• It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Overcome
  • Mental Illness

• Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Up
  • Age
  • Wise

• I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Believe
  • Tree

• Here is the bread of time to come, Here is its actual stone. The bread Will be our bread, the stone will be Our bed and we shall sleep by night. We shall forget by day, except The moments when we choose to play The imagined pine, the imagined jay.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Night
  • Moments

• So it's gonna be foreverOr it's gonna go down in flames.You can tell me when it's overIf the high was worth the pain.Got a long list of ex-lovers,They'll tell you I'm insane.'Cause you know I love the players,And you love the game.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • High
  • Game

• Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

  

  David Maister
  • Success
  • Matter
  • Leader

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

  

  Frank Harris
  • Why
  • Age

• The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Home
  • She
  • Business

• Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

  

  George Eliot
  • Integrity
  • Minds
  • Consequences