George Eliot Quotes

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

George Eliot

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• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Men
  • Home
  • Remember

• All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Important
  • Me
  • Support

• My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Easy

• I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Violence

• It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • World
  • Great
  • Words

• There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • Stronger

• At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Heaven
  • Humanity
  • Door

• I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life,

  

  Rabia Basri
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Wisdom

• To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Country

• The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • People
  • Memories
  • Honor

• Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Truth

• The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Men
  • Effort
  • Struggle

• Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Environment
  • Creative
  • Process

• Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp turn. Being the empiricist that he is, he moved, to the opposite extreme, and set as a task for two or three years the collectivization of all the peasantry, the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, and the compression of the Five Year Plan into four years.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Opposition
  • Deliver
  • Stalin

• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

  

  George Eliot
  • Feelings
  • Illusion
  • Errors