George Eliot Quotes

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

George Eliot

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• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Water
  • Leave

• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Loving
  • Preaching

• It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Time
  • Play
  • Excited

• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Need

• They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Different
  • Long
  • Now

• Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Home
  • Circle
  • Square

• A man hunted only for food or clothing or in self-defense. It was another mark of the effete and the sadistic to take life as a sport.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Life
  • Food

• There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • May

• If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

  

  Allan Houston

• Social media has allowed groups, such as ISIL, to use the Internet to spot and assess potential recruits. With the widespread horizontal distribution of social media, terrorists can identify vulnerable individuals of all ages in the United States - spot, assess, recruit, and radicalize - either to travel or to conduct a homeland attack.

  

  James Comey
  • Travel

• Whether football's here or not, I will be fine. I go out, I play to win.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Football

• My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which you express them. And for me to do - to speak at demonstrations and be as strident as I was now I see wasn't right. And it - there was a better way to do it. I could have written articles.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Children
  • Father

• I think flag football is a great alternative, and it's a great game in its own right. It's a wonderful alternative. You can develop all of the skills and athleticism and glean the lessons you can from contact football through playing flag.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Great
  • Game
  • Football

• Don't we realise that the student of today is the executive of tomorrow?

  

  Anthony Carmona
  • Today

• The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.

  

  Laurie Colwin
  • Kitchen

• I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it.

  

  Jamie Johnson
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.

  

  Jean-Pascal Tricoire
  • Country
  • Business

• How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't. There's a hierarchy. Why do I pick out that thing, that thing, that thing?

  

  David Hockney
  • Why

• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • More
  • Speed

• The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Up
  • Problem

• When I moved back to New York, I saw a lot of girls knitting on the subway, and it had a bit of a comeback.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Comeback

• For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

  

  George Eliot
  • Pain
  • Compassion
  • Life Of Memory