George Eliot Quotes
... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
Quotes to Explore
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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The one thing you can control is effort.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.
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And he wanted a wife. He wanted to raise children. He wanted to prove that goodness wasn’t beaten into children, that fear was not the fount from which virtue flowed. He wanted to be able to gather his family in his arms and know that not one of them dreaded the sight of him, or felt the need to lie to him in order to have his love.
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We'll drive off the side of that bridge when we come to it, Senator Kennedy.
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I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.
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Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.
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Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they believe. The new state church has taken the form of the public school.
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My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.
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... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
