George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn.
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And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.
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Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?
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We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
