George Eliot Quotes
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
Quotes to Explore
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Life is too short to blend in.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
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We shared our father with the world.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.
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Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
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Music has always been around with me.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.
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We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.
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Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.
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When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.
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I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
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If you want to fly higher, first you have to spread your wings.. The world’s big and there are a lot of places you can fly^^
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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
