George Eliot Quotes

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Work
  • History
  • Original

• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Liberal

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Want
  • Study

• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
  • God
  • Money
  • Kids

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Family
  • You
  • Yourself

• I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Today
  • Reading
  • Brown

• They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

  

  Kate Millett
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Crazy
  • Feel
  • Dreams

• Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Health

• I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • New York
  • Ready
  • Coach

• A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Taken
  • Child
  • Liberty

• I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Favourite

• New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

  

  David Letterman
  • Remember

• Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.

  

  James Carville
  • Time
  • Dirty

• In all candor, if I'd been President of the United States, I'd have ordered the plane landed at the nearest Air Force base, and I'd have been over here, ok?

  

  John McCain
  • Air

• To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.

  

  William Dunbar
  • Kind
  • Humble
  • Neighbor

• Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Up
  • Great
  • Alone

• A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

  

  George Eliot
  • Great