George Eliot Quotes
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry -
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
Adam Cohen -
I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
Carine Roitfeld -
Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
Vernon Howard -
If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Oscar Hammerstein -
Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
Abraham Lincoln -
My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
Zhu Rongji -
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch -
I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.
Queen Latifah
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I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
Yair Lapid -
You always want your films to go as far as they can.
Sally Hawkins -
Africa’s progress will depend on unleashing economic growth - not just for the few at the top, but for the many, because an essential element of dignity is being able to live a decent life. That begins with a job. And that requires trade and investment.
Barack Obama -
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
Queen Victoria -
Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
Sallust
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I firmly believe that if you follow these simple rules then you'll have a wonderfully romantic life. They're all so important when it comes to building a strong relationship, especially the very last one.
F. Burton Howard -
Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they're thinking about anything else. That's the general rule about most drugs.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
Paul Gauguin -
La raison et l'amour sont ennemis jurés.
Pierre Corneille -
Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.
Yehudi Menuhin -
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
George Eliot