George Eliot Quotes
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.
George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
Walter Lippmann
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
Yossi Sarid
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus
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I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.
Larry Fitzgerald
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
Yael Grobglas
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca
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Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going 'This shit's happening on the streets.' Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less 'valid' than Compton?
Darius Rucker
Hootie & the Blowfish
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Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.
Ambrose Bierce
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When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
The Notorious B.I.G.
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We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.
Learned Hand
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I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.
Charlie Trotter
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Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.
Kevin DeYoung
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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I wind about, and in and out, – With here a blossom sailing, – And here and there a lusty trout, – And here and there a grayling.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu
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The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.
Paul Theroux
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There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.
Dan Simmons
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It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.
George Eliot
