George Eliot Quotes
The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.
George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
Karl Lagerfeld
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If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!
George Clooney
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The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.
Tilda Swinton
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Let Nature be your teacher
William Wordsworth
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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
Honore de Balzac
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
Victor Hugo
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If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too.
Johnny Van Zant
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make.
Neil LaBute
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I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.
Zachary Cole Smith
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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.
John Milton
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Thomas Aquinas
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The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
Mahatma Gandhi
