George Eliot Quotes

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

George Eliot

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• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Stage

• I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • God
  • Men
  • Service

• When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Family
  • Hands
  • Capitalism

• I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Purpose
  • Hustler

• Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long
  • Respect
  • Mad

• Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Been
  • Hungry
  • Washington

• When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Time
  • Car
  • Driving

• Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Wisdom
  • Never
  • Late

• I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Know
  • Connection
  • Lead

• The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Done
  • Sound
  • Policy

• With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Rap

• I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Son
  • Husband

• I do believe that in the future there will be a movie called 'Deadpool vs. Wolverine'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • Future

• If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • Great
  • Growth

• The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Experience
  • You

• Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Reality
  • Pain
  • Illusions

• If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • God
  • Think
  • Worry

• Our hope is in Christ, who started this good work in the first place. He is at work, right now, creating godly emotions in our hearts, and he won’t stop until our lives are bursting with beautiful, passionate, true feelings.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • Christ
  • Emotions
  • Hearts

• Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

  

  George Eliot
  • Circumstances
  • Emotions
  • Conditions