George Eliot Quotes
If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
Parker Stevenson -
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge -
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
Uma Thurman -
I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
Daniel Bryan -
My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
Ted Danson
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
Jack Carroll -
All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
Frances McDormand -
Our career had a sort of funny shape.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
Rahm Emanuel -
China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
Jack Ma -
We don't want our players getting hurt.
Gary Bettman
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
Gavyn Davies -
I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.
Laura Benanti -
If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
Adam McKay -
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
Oliver Sacks -
I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
Talulah Riley -
'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
Tariq Ali
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We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?
Ulysses S. Grant -
Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?
Robin LaFevers -
The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
Ben Bernanke -
If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.
George Eliot