George Eliot Quotes
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
Sam Raimi -
I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.
Pankaj Mishra -
We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.
Vanessa Lachey
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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
Frances McDormand -
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
Edmund Clarence Stedman -
This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
Wendell Berry -
I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
Randy Pausch -
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
Dan Brown -
I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
Rachael Taylor
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Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
Otto Dix -
I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
Rafael Nadal -
Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.
Rachel Caine -
It doesn't matter. I look at it like this, the start of the season I'll do what I've always done. That's it.
Gary Sheffield -
If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.
Erykah Badu -
The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
Valerie June -
The engagement of the EU and China is total. We are going to vote together on the resolution.
Javier Solana -
I don't want to get into an insult fight with Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton -
Between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.
Amelia B. Edwards -
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.
George Eliot