George Eliot Quotes
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.George Eliot
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
Walter Payton -
I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
Maddie Ziegler -
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
Zach Braff -
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
Faith Hill -
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.
Tammy Duckworth
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One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
C. L. R. James -
Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.
Tadeusz Borowski -
How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?
Rachel Carson -
For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.
Jean-Jacques Cadet -
You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.
Jay-Z -
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
Neal Cassady -
I feel I have lived during one of the best eras of racing there ever was. From Rudolph, Wis., to Daytona, it has increased 1,000-fold. When I first started racing you were looked down upon. Now, you're a celebrity and I'm not just talking about myself. Even if racing hadn't gotten so popular, I would still have done it.
Dick Trickle -
You get in that pressure situation where you feel like you have to win at home.
Phil Jackson -
I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will roll up our sleeves collectively as a nation and tackle the problems that we confront.
Hillary Clinton -
And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.
Paul Reiser -
Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.
Albert Einstein