George Eliot Quotes

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

Quotes to Explore
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I think it's important when you make a record that you know you're working with the people who are going to get the best out of you.
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To teach your child to only be a Muslim in Muslim spaces or only a Christian in Christian spaces means in a way that you're teaching them a religious identity that is relevant to only a very small part of their lives, because the vast majority of their lives in the 21st century are going to be lived in interaction with others.
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You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager. That's who you are.
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We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.
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But frankly, if there were any real problems, we would have seen them yesterday,
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I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that.
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In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?
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Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
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Coming to the end of a long shot is brutal so when it's just me, if I mess up I can be like "Sorry. I'm an idiot. Let's go again".
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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
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The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!
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A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
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A lot of times people say, ‘You act like a grandmother, you’re just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.
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I don't want to build a bunch of homes and sit on them.
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I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they're still in love and still write together.
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People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make any analogy or any assumption, which writers do quite a bit. It's not something I ever for one second thought about. This is not my life story, and I've never told my life story, and I have no interest in telling my life story.
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Lots of people have been calling asking about converting their oil-heated homes to propane-heated homes
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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress