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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
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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.
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
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You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.
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Failure cannot cope with persistence.
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Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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A feathered arrow without a barb,” said he, “is a good weapon, but a barbed arrow without feathers is utterly useless.
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
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Hang in, keep cool, and stay who you are. Things will improve.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.
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I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
