George Eliot Quotes

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

George Eliot

• Soul
• Understand
• Mysteries
• God's Dealings

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• I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Country

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

  

  Dane Cook
  • True
  • Professional
  • Dreams

• I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • King
  • Hamlet

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
  • Me
  • Islam

• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Inside

• You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

  

  Van Jones
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Kids

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Age

• Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Actor
  • Hard
  • Coffee

• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • Today
  • Society

• We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • May
  • Age
  • Golden

• The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Soul
  • Complains
  • Feeble

• I'm used to being a small part of a massive production.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Small
  • Being
  • Production

• 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
  • Death
  • Beautiful

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

  

  Jack Reed
  • Goal
  • Serve
  • Aspiration

• And I used to buy 'Fangoria,' the horror magazine, which made my mum wonder if I was going to be a serial killer.

  

  Joe Cornish
  • Wonder

• All disruption starts with introspection.

  

  Jay Samit

• There is a thing inherent and natural which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted. It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe. I do not know its name. If I am forced to give It a name, I call it Tao, and I name it as supreme.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Universe
  • Changes
  • Inherent

• I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Soul

• All my collaborators unilaterally said that I need to just stay on one idea for longer. And of course I understand that. I like to switch gears a lot, and I like this kind of sloppy attitude.

  

  Oneohtrix Point Never
  • Attitude
  • Understand
  • Collaborators

• I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

  

  George Eliot
  • Soul
  • Understand
  • Mysteries