George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
-
I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.
-
I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
-
I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
-
I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
-
I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
-
I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
-
I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
-
I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
-
I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
-
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
-
Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
-
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
-
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
-
When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
-
It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
-
I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.
-
I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
-
Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.
-
We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have to. Especially if it seems possible to trace a line from vicious rhetoric on a computer screen to violent action.
-
The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
-
Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.
-
When trouble haunts me, need I sigh? No, rather smile away despair;
-
His smile is sweetened by his gravity.
