George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.
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I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.
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If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
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A good heart 'is worth gold.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
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I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
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Was it possible that Warriors had been mistaken in their view of Magic all along? Could there be another way of looking at things, other than the Warrior way?....Wish's world view was spinning upside down, and that is always a difficult moment.
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Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.
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What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.
