George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus.
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Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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There were really funny characteristics about this guy Richard Nixon, chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.
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The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
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I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place — so you can share the blame.
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Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
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Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.
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There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
