George Eliot Quotes

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

George Eliot

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• '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
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• For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• Saddam Hussein is not entitled to any presumption of innocence.

  

  Jack Straw
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• We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the uncertainties in that warping and how they change.

  

  Kip Thorne
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• I love musicals and I'm happy they are coming back because I'd love to do more.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
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• If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

  

  Ole Hallesby
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• “Happiness springs up of itself in a united family. - House of Exile”

  

  Nora Waln
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• It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • People
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• I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • People
  • Believe
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• Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.

  

  Anneli Rufus
  • Tired
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• Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

  

  William R. Ferris
  • Struggle
  • Reflection
  • Standards

• I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Misunderstood
  • Pattern

• Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Like

• It's consistent with the Clemmons Area Development Guide and the development pattern that has taken place out there.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Development
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• The self-organizing and self-correcting imprint is on all aspects of reality. So not only was your body formed by this invisible hand, not only does your body continue to work by this invisible hand, but every aspect of your life - emotionally, physiologically, and spiritually - is also programmed to thrive, is also programmed for self-organization and self-correction.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Reality

• We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

  

  Thomas More
  • Heaven

• I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Working
  • Factory
  • Cursing

• Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

  

  George Eliot
  • Pattern
  • Consciences