George Eliot Quotes

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

George Eliot

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• Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Moderation
  • Deprivation

• 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Kind
  • Loved
  • Hotel

• I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Spirit
  • Mirror
  • Mirrors

• It is amazing how much more amazing sleep is in the morning. You wake up and you're like, "I stayed up to do what?! Watch Growing Pains? What was I thinking!?" But at night you're like, "La La La La La, Hey! Growing Pains, awesome! And I've seen this episode. That Kirk Cameron's always in trouble."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Night
  • Funny
  • Pain

• The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Lord
  • Judgements
  • Altogether

• Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Promises
  • Harvard University
  • Eldest Boy

• Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Islam
  • Complete

• A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

  

  Lord Byron

• His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Principle
  • Enjoyment
  • Ruling

• To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

  

  William Gibson
  • Guy
  • Political
  • Consciousness

• I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

  

  Bono U2
  • Decisions
  • Nervous
  • Heads Of State

• Full of men, vacant of friends.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Vacant

• The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them.... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Problems

• What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • Food
  • Water
  • Shelter

• A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Protection
  • Shelter
  • Organism

• I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Life
  • Write
  • Romance

• The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

  

  George Eliot
  • Human Heart
  • Shelter
  • Humankind