George Eliot Quotes

He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

George Eliot

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• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • People
  • Good
  • Words

• I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Strength

• I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Character
  • Understand
  • Felt

• Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Food

• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Me
  • Suffering
  • Sorrow

• I need my fill of Indian home cooking.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Home
  • Need
  • Cooking

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Been

• I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Always
  • Leave

• In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Career
  • Player
  • Top

• It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Up
  • Gun
  • Down

• There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Toy

• Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Opportunity
  • Myself
  • Fight

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Know
  • Girls
  • Blues

• Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.

  

  Ana Ortiz
  • Life
  • Important
  • Parents

• And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

  

  Delta Burke
  • Work
  • Real

• He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Work
  • Reflection