George Eliot Quotes

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

George Eliot

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• Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Boy
  • Inside
  • Little

• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Week
  • Gym

• A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Things

• When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Go

• I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Father
  • House

• We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Political
  • Earth
  • Problems

• I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Determination

• I'm glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Work
  • Down
  • Florida

• I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Pride
  • Honor

• Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Past

• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • God
  • Opinion

• My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Year
  • Plan
  • Penny

• I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Up
  • Never
  • Now

• I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Success
  • Faith

• Excess is excrement.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.

  

  Edie Sedgwick

• And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death

• Human love and desire is my bag.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Desire

• Never give up, Never Give In because you are stronger than you realise.

  

  Emma Hewitt
  • Stronger
  • Realise
  • Never Give Up

• Thou spiritual Sun! Satan, Thou Eye, Thou Lust! Cry aloud! Cry aloud! Whirl the Wheel, O my Father, O Satan, O Sun! Thou, the Saviour! Silence! Give me Thy Secret! Give me suck, Thou Phallus, Thou Sun! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Satan, thou Eye, thou Lust! Thou self-caused, self-determined, exalted, Most High!

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • High
  • Father
  • Spiritual

• You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Idea
  • Mentioned
  • Fond

• I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Things
  • Advantage
  • Develop

• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

  

  George Eliot
  • Silence
  • Speech
  • Nest