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.George Eliot
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
Aaron Eckhart -
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.
Sam Houston -
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.
Yishan Wong -
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.
Irving Ravetch -
One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
Floyd Skloot -
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.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Gary Oldman -
Cussing ain't for everybody.
Eric Lynn Wright -
If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
Young Thug -
I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
Vanity -
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
Jack Kemp
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The one thing you can control is effort.
Malik Jackson -
My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
Harold Rosenberg -
I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
Olly Murs -
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.
Gaby Hoffmann -
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.
Orson Scott Card
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There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.
Mark Haddon -
The world's a fascinating place right now.
Alex Gansa -
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. A. Milne -
I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.
Chuck Grassley -
... 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.
George Eliot