George Eliot Quotes

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

George Eliot

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• On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Home
  • Day
  • Birthday

• Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • True
  • Political
  • Law

• You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • You
  • Confident
  • Beast

• Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

  

  John Travolta
  • She
  • Together
  • Nice

• Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Laziness
  • Shake
  • Scruff

• You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Friends
  • Play
  • Plasma

• The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Age
  • Present
  • Identity

• This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Today
  • Death

• Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painting
  • Green
  • Impossible

• Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Children

• Failure cannot cope with persistence.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Failure
  • Persistence
  • Cope

• Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

  

  Chester Himes
  • Life
  • Men
  • Democracy

• Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Emotion

• A feathered arrow without a barb,” said he, “is a good weapon, but a barbed arrow without feathers is utterly useless.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Arrow
  • Feathered
  • Barb

• Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

  

  Arthur David Beaty
  • Air
  • Author
  • Novel

• Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Circumstances
  • Daylight
  • Christmas Piece

• I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

  

  George Eliot
  • Conviction
  • Paid
  • Debts