George Eliot Quotes
But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.
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I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.
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Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.
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I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.
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President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.
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And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.
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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.
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The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.
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One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.
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But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.
