George Eliot Quotes

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

George Eliot

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• I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Good
  • Game
  • Change

• I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • School
  • Wish

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Play
  • Learn
  • Singer

• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Winning
  • Beauty
  • Greatest

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Suits
  • Shoe

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Me
  • Rather

• Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Society
  • Everything
  • Grow

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Important
  • Relationship

• When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Movie
  • Mean
  • Moment

• We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Water
  • Enough
  • Quit

• The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Party
  • Christian
  • Dog

• My parents were ballet dancers, and I did a lot of ballet, too, so I think I learned quite early on how to hold my body. Although I do recall desperately wishing I was shorter at school.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • School
  • Parents
  • Ballet

• People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I feel like I'm an ordinary person, but I've had extraordinary opportunities in my later life, and I never saw any of it coming. I never saw 'The Office' coming, I never saw 'Inside Out' coming, and I just feel grateful and thankful to have these opportunities and to have an actual real enthusiasm in my life.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Life
  • Real
  • Thankful

• I learned at a very young age how to be simplistic and sincere.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • Age

• History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Record
  • Wars

• Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

  

  George Eliot
  • History
  • Rome
  • Hemisphere