George Eliot Quotes

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

George Eliot

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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.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Singing
  • German

• 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.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
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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.

  

  Epictetus
  • Money
  • Faithful
  • Point Out

• A good heart 'is worth gold.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Gold

• It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Youth

• We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

  

  Martin Luther
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  • Authority
  • Exist

• 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.

  

  Ethan Embry
  • School
  • Home
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Magic
  • View
  • Warriors

• 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.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Angry
  • Emotion
  • Treated

• What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

  

  Joseph de Maistre
  • Revolution
  • Direction
  • Opposite

• The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.

  

  Evan Esar
  • State
  • Depends
  • Unions

• There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Long
  • Care

• It is nice that what eventually became the late British Empire has not been ruled by an 'English' dynasty since the early eleventh century: since then a motley parade of Normans (Plantagenets), Welsh (Tudors), Scots (Stuarts), Dutch (House of Orange) and Germans (Hanoverians) have squatted on the imperial throne. No one much cared until the philological revolution and a paroxysm of English nationalism in World War I. House of Windsor rhymes with House of Schönbrunn or House of Versailes.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Revolution
  • Throne
  • Rhymes

• The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Character
  • Philosophical
  • Event

• The hinge is distinctly different, so when you look at it carefully, you recognize that it is its own unique design.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Design
  • Unique
  • Recognize

• A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

  

  George Eliot
  • Disposition
  • Meaner