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
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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.
Daisaku Ikeda -
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.
A.J. Styles -
It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.
Andy Rooney -
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.
Li Ka-shing -
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Oscar Wilde -
So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
Abraham Lincoln
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Let Nature be your teacher
William Wordsworth -
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
Honore de Balzac -
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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There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.
Sarah Orne Jewett -
You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
George Eliot -
You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
Josh Hartnett -
I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.
Keir Hardie -
You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
Oscar Wilde -
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