George Eliot Quotes

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

George Eliot

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• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

  

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• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
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• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

  Adam McKay
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• People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
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• 'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
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• I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
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• I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.

  

  Jack Reed
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• The commercial and subsidised theatre are intrinsically linked. I wouldn't have had the career I have had without the opportunities I had through the subsidised sector. However, I do think, in any walk of life, subsidy for the sake of subsidy is not always healthy.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Life
  • Career
  • Theatre

• As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Years
  • U.S.
  • Bitterness

• I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Family
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  • Voice

• If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Believe
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• Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Passion
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• As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • People
  • Study
  • Bored

• Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Sleep
  • Daily

• In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • History
  • Study
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• Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!

  

  Bette Midler
  • Up
  • Soul
  • City

• He held her face in his hands, and stared into her eyes, and said that she was his for only a while anyway, and that it wasn’t his going to Cranwell that would split them up. “You’re destined for greater things, Susannah Hammond. I see it in you. You’re so clever, so bright. So beautiful. So special. I’m not any of those things. Except when I’m flying, maybe. Down here, I’m ordinary. I’m going to be just a memory for you. A sweet one, I hope. Happy. But just a part of your past. I might be good enough for now, but I’m not good enough forever. Not for you.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Forever
  • Hands
  • Memory

• You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Oysters

• Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Real
  • Value
  • Gift

• Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

  

  George Eliot
  • Soul
  • Memory
  • Butterfly