George Eliot Quotes

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

George Eliot

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• Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Family
  • Father
  • Girl

• Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Sometimes

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• 'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Father
  • Morning

• I don't think good and evil are polarized.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Good And Evil

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Change
  • Technological

• I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Wife
  • Wedding
  • Qualities

• My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Start
  • Now
  • Rise

• It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Education
  • Justice
  • Teacher

• I am very shy with people I don't know.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Shy

• You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Beautiful
  • Risk
  • Independent

• I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Look
  • Three
  • Jerusalem

• Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Game
  • Thought
  • Morals

• Music was as natural as breathing in our house.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Music
  • House

• ..it had been fun to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery..

  

  Otto Dix
  • Fun

• The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

  

  James Packer
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• Doing 'SunTrap' after 'The Chase' is dipping into something different. That's the whole basis of what I wanted to do with my career. I didn't want to do the same thing all the time.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.

  

  Du Yun
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.

  

  Janis Ian
  • God
  • Career

• I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

  

  John Hurt
  • People
  • Great
  • Success

• When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

  

  Ace Antonio Hall
  • Doubt
  • Wrong
  • Potential

• Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

  

  George Eliot
  • Mistake
  • Wrong
  • Explanation