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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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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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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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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The one thing you can control is effort.
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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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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
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There's something very simple and contemplative about 'John Wick' - what is interesting is that it looks like it was based on an Akira Kurosawa movie.
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Everybody in the NBA is good. And then you have the really good ones and the great ones.
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I've found that I've settled into myself a little bit more in last year and started wearing things that I feel comfortable with and my own style and... I decided to just embrace the person that I am and the look I like, and what I think is pretty.
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The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don't want to say it's a training ground; it really isn't, but what it does teach you is discipline.
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Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.
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If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
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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.
