George Eliot Quotes

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

George Eliot

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• I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Different
  • Past

• I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Happy
  • Community
  • Childhood

• I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Cheap
  • Scorn
  • Shoddy

• I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• We've seen smaller guys in main event fights, and they do well. It just takes the right combination of people I think. I think Dominick Cruz v. T.J. Dillashaw could have main-evented a PPV and done pretty good.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Never
  • Facts

• I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Think
  • You
  • Bigger

• I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • School
  • Power

• In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Risk
  • Philosophy
  • Risks

• Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Football
  • Basketball

• I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.

  

  Fleur East
  • Family
  • Hate
  • Gatherings

• An immense mausoleum of white marble, built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife, it is the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • World
  • Art
  • Wife

• He Corot is always the strongest, he has foreseen everything.

  

  Edgar Degas

• Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more- also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Kisses sweeter than Tupelo honey.Little bit crazy like New Orleans.Memphis blue and Daytona sunny.Soft as cotton in some cut-off jeans.Don't you know, ain't nothing in the whole wide world like a Southern girl.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • World
  • Girl
  • Crazy

• So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

  

  Buddy Rich

• I want to party in space because I make alien music.

  

  David Guetta
  • Music
  • Party
  • Space

• I had great apprehension in locking lips with Namit on the screen. I come with my own prerogatives.

  

  Nia Sharma
  • Great

• It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Failure

• Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Action
  • Failure

• Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

  

  George Eliot
  • Failure
  • Perseverance
  • Grander