George Eliot Quotes

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

George Eliot

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• I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • May
  • Me
  • Deep

• Success is really about your mindset.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Success
  • Mindset
  • Success Is

• Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Human
  • Demons

• I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Fired

• The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Different
  • Challenges
  • Generation

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Experience
  • You
  • Impossible

• I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Up
  • Live
  • Money

• You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Choose
  • Public

• Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • School
  • High
  • Football

• We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Soul

• I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • People
  • Great
  • Happy

• I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Life
  • War
  • Politics

• In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Different
  • School
  • Together

• Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Character
  • Wisdom
  • Better

• One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Career
  • Working
  • Blessings

• For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Support
  • City
  • Honor

• If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Success
  • Mad

• Love... love... love, never counting the cost.

  

  Catherine Doherty
  • Cost
  • Counting

• I am blessed to be doing what I do. So if I have to be at a photo shoot, do an interview, or make a TV appearance, I am not going to sit around whining and complaining about how I don't want to get up early or I don't feel like talking.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Up
  • Blessed
  • Complaining

• The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Home

• An active faith can give thanks for a promise even though it be not yet performed, knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money.

  

  Matthew Henry
  • Good
  • God
  • Money

• That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

  

  George Eliot
  • Rest
  • Blessed
  • Advancing