George Eliot Quotes
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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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.
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It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.
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My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.
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I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
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It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words.
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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.
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At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
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I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life,
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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.
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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.
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I think music is just a great place to focus your energy and your feelings. If you're young, you can take all that stuff that you feel so intensely about - especially these days, but I'm not going to go there - but to take all those feelings and put them into music was such a big deal for me to be able to play punk rock songs. It was such a release for me. It's a good thing for parents to support that.
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The idea that life on earth is so infinitely precious that the death which robs us of it must be the ultimate tragedy is precisely the idolatry that God is often trying to combat.
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If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
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Sometimes you just need to go through a door.
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By the nourishing spirit of the temple we can learn the reality, the power and the hope of the Savior's Atonement in our personal life.
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
