George Eliot Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
Octavia E. Butler -
When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
Edmund White -
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler -
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and learn lessons to prevent future misconduct by foreign governments.
Jack Reed -
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
E. W. Howe
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
Vince McMahon -
Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.
Vince Gill -
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
Viktor E. Frankl -
I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
Karen McDougal -
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
Oscar Wilde
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Intercession is about putting ourselves in other’s shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective.
Oswald Chambers -
If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.
Cale Yarborough -
Qian Xuesen, the father of the Chinese Space Program, studied in the United States, and he was a protégé of Theodore Von Carmen's at Cal Tech and helped start the jet propulsion laboratory there, and then he got caught up in the anti-communism wave and was accused of being a spy and was actually deported back to China where he built from nothing, their entire missile and space program. So, in a way, in a very real way, the United States in trying to protect so-called protect our secrets and throwing this guy out of the country, we helped seed and start the Chinese missile program.
Leroy Chiao -
He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.
Barack Obama -
Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.
Barack Obama -
Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in the morning. They want things like toast. I say, 'I don't have these recipes.
Elayne Boosler
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Fasting is a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions...
Brian D. McLaren -
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
William Osler -
Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.
Margaret Mitchell -
A patient must have a terminal diagnosis to be admitted to such a facility.
Andrea Phillips -
Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.
William H. Macy -
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
George Eliot