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.
Quotes to Explore
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The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
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I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.
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It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.
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If it is something that is right for human beings, then I don't care if other people criticize. You cannot please everyone in the world.
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Let Nature be your teacher
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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
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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.
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The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
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I feel conflicted about my relationship with social media.
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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame…
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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.
