George Eliot Quotes

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

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• And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
  • Nation

• I've been a huge fan of Marc Jacobs for many, many years, even going back to when I was wearing men's clothing. He captures a kind of simplicity and a kind of beauty that I like - projecting strength through femininity.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Men
  • Simplicity

• By now you've heard the constant right wing attacks on the elite media and the liberal elite, who may or may not be part of Washington elite, a subset of the East Coast elite, which is overtly influenced by the Hollywood elite. So, basically, unless you're a shit-kicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists.

  

  Bill Maher
  • May

• The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Heart
  • Person
  • Learned

• Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Anything

• If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

  

  Aristotle
  • Issues
  • Decide
  • Trifles

• Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Doe
  • Madness

• The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

  

  Epictetus
  • Philosophy
  • Consciousness
  • Weakness

• Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Feels
  • Speak
  • Ought

• American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Evil
  • Information

• We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance-algae... We could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Plant

• It is difficult finding intelligence that is actionable in a lot of these places, but we have to keep trying.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Intelligence

• The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.

  

  Plato
  • Country
  • Humanity
  • Fortune

• You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

  

  Joshua Cohen
  • Write
  • Rules
  • Novel

• Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

  

  George Eliot
  • Souls
  • Echoes