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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• Life Of Memory

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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

• I observed, 'Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment.' It is not only 'the first and great' command, but all the commandments in one. 'Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise,' they are all comprised in this one word, love.

  

  John Wesley
  • Great
  • Law

• Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Learning
  • Lies

• Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Power
  • Next
  • Camps

• We get hit with the 'jukebox musical' label, but book authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and director Des McAnuff accomplished a 50-50 split between music and drama, ... The music is very important, but the history of the group makes it a great piece of theater.

  

  Bob Gaudio
  • Music
  • Book
  • History

• Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Important

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

  

  George Eliot
  • Pain
  • Compassion
  • Life Of Memory