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

• I don't know. At the end of spring training I felt ready to pitch.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Training
  • End
  • Spring

• You can take weight out of a car and truck and still make it very strong. William

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Strong
  • You
  • Truck

• The United States military is undoubtedly the world's finest. It's also far and away the most generously funded, with policymakers offering U.S. troops no shortage of opportunities to practice their craft. So why doesn't this great military ever win anything? Or put another way, why in recent decades have those forces been unable to accomplish Washington's stated wartime objectives? Why has the now 15-year-old war on terror failed to result in even a single real success anywhere in the Greater Middle East?

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Real
  • War
  • Opportunity

• Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

  

  Rumi
  • Opinion
  • Souls
  • Ruin

• When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Mother
  • Thought

• Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

  

  George Eliot
  • Souls
  • Echoes