George Eliot Quotes
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I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.
Courteney Cox -
There's a genius in all of us.
Albert Einstein -
Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.
Harold Evans -
Men are idol factories.
John Calvin -
Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.
Tertullian
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It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.
Homer -
I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft.
Dustin Hoffman -
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Marcel Proust -
By and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them.
Will Durant -
The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.
Hermann von Helmholtz -
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
Anna Godbersen
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My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.
Steve Martin -
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.
William Raspberry -
Nobody can ever take Michael Jackson's place, it's only one Michael.
Jackie Jackson The Jacksons -
Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.
Richard Louv -
I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.
Allen Shawn -
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
George Eliot