George Eliot Quotes

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

George Eliot

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• I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.

  

  Carey Lowell
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• Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
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• I'm thankful For the blessing And the lessons that I've learned with you By my side.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Blessing
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• Me and my dog are best friends.

  

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• I think some of our guys hit a little bit of a wall here. We talked a lot about that ... This is a heavy time to play basketball. You've really got to take care of yourself. I had a couple of guys fighting through things out there, under-the-weather type of things. They just couldn't get themselves going.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Fighting
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• There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man....

  

  Robert Frost
  • Time
  • War
  • Nature

• Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony. It is not that someone does not want to, but because it is a hard thing to do. Take Obama, a forward-thinking man, a liberal, a democrat. Did he not pledge to shut down Guantanamo before his election? But did he do it? No, he did not. And may I ask why not? Did he not want to do it? He wanted to, I am sure he did, but it did not work out. He sincerely wanted to do it, but did not succeed, since it turned out to be very complicated.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Succeed
  • Election
  • Complicated

• Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.

  

  Confucius
  • Expect
  • Avoid
  • Resentments

• Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Children
  • Abortion
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• I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Forces
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  • Suffice

• Travelers must be content.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Travel
  • Traveler

• It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

  

  Isaiah Thomas
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Expect

• "Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Lord
  • Anchor

• I have come to the conclusion that some people come in your life as blessings, others come in your life as lessons.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Lessons
  • Conclusion
  • Blessings

• Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

  

  Steven Levitt
  • Done
  • Problem
  • Decided

• I protest against any absolute conclusion.

  

  George Eliot
  • Conclusion
  • Protest