George Eliot Quotes
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
Quotes to Explore
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We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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People will always want a free lunch.
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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
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I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.
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凡是敵人反對的，我們就要擁護；凡是敵人擁護的，我們就要反對。
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
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'Milton was right…' The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery…
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I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.
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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
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Statti col dolce in bocca; e non ti dogliaCh'amareggiare al fin non te la voglia.
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I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.
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But what a voice! It was like the voice of a soul that had once lived in an Aeolian harp.
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Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
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After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take?
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You are here to create the world around you that YOU choose - while you allow the world, as others choose it to be, to exist also. And while their choices in no way hinder your own choices, your attention to what they are choosing does affect your vibration - and therefore your own point of attraction.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
