George Eliot Quotes

Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God Almighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.

George Eliot

• God
• Sleep
• Satisfied
• Babies

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• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • You
  • Moment
  • Gift

• When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • Feeling
  • Body
  • Kindness

• For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Me
  • Value

• I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Life
  • Real
  • Anger

• Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Pretty
  • Actor
  • Grateful

• In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Funny

• I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Say

• A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Situation

• Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • Black
  • Freedom

• Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Great
  • Past
  • Present

• Let's try common sense. A novel concept.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Sense
  • Novel
  • Concept

• The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

  

  Karl Popper
  • World
  • Important
  • Political

• We should be wondering tonight, 'Is there a world?' But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • World

• Why don’t we just sit and stare and do nothing? Nothing at all for a while I like the way you smile I could be your state and I could be your nation It doesn’t get better than home, now does it?

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Why
  • Home
  • Smile

• Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Travel
  • Clouds

• Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't know, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had a long road back to the campus before me.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Long
  • Road
  • Travel

• We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Energy
  • Brain

• 'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • The Long Goodbye

• Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Crazy
  • Promise
  • Girlfriend

• A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Life
  • Men
  • Matter

• I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Time
  • Sleep

• A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • World
  • Different
  • Character

• Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don't want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness.

  

  Leonard Lauder
  • Free
  • Morning
  • Fitness

• Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God Almighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.

  

  George Eliot
  • God
  • Sleep
  • Satisfied