George Eliot Quotes

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

George Eliot

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• I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.

  

  K. Flay
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Care

• I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Night
  • Day
  • Sleep

• I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Care
  • Worry
  • Ordinary

• It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Inequality

• I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Study

• When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

  

  Morna Anne Murray
  • Heart
  • Young
  • Youth

• When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. So, to sum it up, it seems that whenever we take a couple of steps forward, we take a few more backwards.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Up
  • Women
  • Girl

• Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Ideas
  • Forever
  • Used

• It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Trying
  • High
  • Game

• You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Mistakes
  • Committed
  • Sins

• It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong.

  

  Don Meredith
  • Strong
  • Pastors

• My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Answers

• In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Think
  • Care

• What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • I Think

• Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

  

  Bono U2
  • Problems
  • I Think
  • I Hope

• I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

  

  George Eliot
  • I Think
  • Dislike
  • I Don't Like