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

• Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

  

  Charles V
  • She
  • Nature

• Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Hurt
  • Silence

• Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Silence
  • Secret
  • Simplicity

• You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Lips
  • Dear
  • Ache

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

  

  George Eliot
  • Silence
  • Speech
  • Nest