George Eliot Quotes
Even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
Odeya Rush -
I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.
Gaby Hoffmann -
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
AJ McLean -
Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
Aaron Neville
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All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work-and therefore as dads.
Warren Farrell -
I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
Bernardo Bertolucci -
In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.
Mary Ellen Mark -
Cheap money feels like the most natural thing in the world - if you don't think about why it's so cheap.
John Lanchester -
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Pierre Corneille -
Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.
Alexandra Kotur
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Without hatred Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it.
Keith Olbermann -
Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.
Oswald Chambers -
Every man carries his kingdom within, and no one knows what is taking place in another's kingdom. 'No one understands me!' Of course they don't, each one of us is a mystery. There is only One Who understands you, and that is God. Hand yourself over to Him.
Oswald Chambers -
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
Alan Paton -
In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.
Lucille Clifton -
But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde
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If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
Martin Luther -
Well my wife and I just had a baby ourselves and it makes it harder to be on the road. It isn't for everybody and it can burn people out, and that's what's happened in the past. We've just kept the ship running y'know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything's alright.
Al Barr -
Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
Sara Teasdale -
Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.
Charles Dickens -
Even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.
George Eliot