George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.
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If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.
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Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
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Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live - men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.
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Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
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Assassination's the fastest way.
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Only Allah changes the regime.
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What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled her niche and accomplished her task; has left the world better than she found it; has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had.
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Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.
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Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
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Things are achieved when they are well begun.
