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
  • Mind
  • Day
  • Myself

• 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.
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Health

• Saddam Hussein is not entitled to any presumption of innocence.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Innocence
  • Presumption
  • Saddam Hussein

• 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
  • Time
  • Change
  • Space

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

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Happy
  • Coming Back
  • I Love Music

• 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
  • God
  • Prayer

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

  

  Nora Waln
  • Family
  • Happiness
  • House of Exile

• 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
  • Work
  • Appreciate

• 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
  • Standup

• 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
  • Tolerance
  • Socializing

• 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

• For films, the process is that you work consistently and constantly for 3-4 months and then leave; whereas for a play, you prepare for about a month and then continue performing it for 5 to 6 months.

  

  Satya Bhabha
  • Play
  • Films
  • Performing

• We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

  

  Thomas More
  • Heaven

• I would like to say that, as the protester finished his shower, I was disturbed by the contradiction between my avowed political materialism and my inexperience with this brand of making, of poeisis, but I could dodge or dampen that contradiction via my hatred of Brooklyn's boutique biopolitics, in which spending obscene sums and endless hours on stylized food preparation somehow enabled the conflation of self-care and political radicalism.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Contradiction
  • Materialism
  • Radicalism

• Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

  

  George Eliot
  • Pattern
  • Consciences