George Eliot Quotes

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

George Eliot

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• I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Done
  • Home
  • Always

• I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Home
  • Play
  • Present

• It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Important
  • Think
  • Me

• There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Good
  • Music
  • Small

• I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Person
  • More
  • Antisocial

• I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Time
  • Live
  • Place

• What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Up
  • Feel

• Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Boy
  • Look
  • Tough

• I want to become more famous, even more famous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Want
  • Famous
  • More

• Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Life
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• 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
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Singing

• I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Want
  • First
  • Secrets

• 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
  • Work
  • War

• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.

  

  Bob Dylan

• As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Work
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• 'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Air

• 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
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Work
  • Truth

• For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.

  

  Billy Al Bengston
  • Time
  • Art
  • Taken

• Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Mean
  • Progress
  • Birth

• Perhaps the idea of money as a cement to solidify our existence and prevent it from dissolving, together with the people who were dear to us, endured.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • People
  • Money
  • Idea

• As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • People
  • Dog
  • Fate

• in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

  

  George Eliot
  • Expression
  • Sympathy
  • Direct