George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
-
A good heart 'is worth gold.
-
It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
-
We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.
-
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
-
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
-
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.
-
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
-
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
