George Eliot Quotes

Come in, Adam, and rest; it has been a hard day for thee.

George Eliot

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• I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • You
  • Running
  • Feel

• If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • God
  • Dead

• Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Cool
  • Voice
  • Bold

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • People
  • Myself
  • Week

• The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Character
  • Dad

• Novels are longer than life.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Novels
  • Longer

• I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Best
  • Literature
  • Story

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Writer
  • Textbooks
  • Scientology

• Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Struggle
  • Possible
  • Once

• What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Life
  • You
  • Quarterback

• We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • World
  • Need
  • Venture

• Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Children
  • America
  • High

• X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Schedule
  • X Out

• Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • House
  • Water
  • Architecture

• I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take note of who hides their origins and who shows them off.

  

  Jenny Zhang

• You can satisfy your soul's mission by committing to leaving something behind on this planet that will make a difference to those who come after you.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Soul
  • Leaving

• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rest
  • Opinion
  • Policy

• Come in, Adam, and rest; it has been a hard day for thee.

  

  George Eliot
  • Rest