George Eliot Quotes

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

George Eliot

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• I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Beauty

• One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Listening

• We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Struggle
  • Happen
  • Most

• In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everybody
  • Campaign
  • Must

• I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Me

• It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

  

  Kate Millett
  • People
  • Believe
  • See

• I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Done
  • Weird
  • Doing

• In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • City

• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Success
  • Victory
  • Obstacles

• Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Change

• But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Italian

• Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Action
  • Paradise

• Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

  

  David Cassidy
  • True
  • Dream
  • Passion

• I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

  

  James Beard
  • Believe
  • Practice

• Hope and Crosby made seven 'Road' movies, starting in 1940 with 'Road to Singapore.' The movies were always about Crosby and Hope fleeing America and finding Dorothy Lamour in some exotic location. Bob's character was cocky and cowardly; Bing's character was smooth and unruffled. They were great characters - lousy, lovable guys.

  

  Frank Oz
  • Great
  • Character
  • America

• If we want Saudi Arabia to progress, we have no choice but to embrace change.

  

  Lubna Olayan
  • Progress

• I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.

  

  John C. Reilly

• O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o’ertax’d, its palsied hearts, was rife.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Life
  • Sick

• And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice — everywhere open to the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Find
  • Prejudice

• What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Birds
  • Bills
  • Heron

• I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Important
  • Help
  • Motherhood

• On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your child's well-being on every measure you possibly can at every moment. So when your kid is sitting down playing with Legos, intensive motherhood dictates that you should be engaging with him or her somehow, praising, questioning, making it into a learning opportunity. It's not enough to just tell your child, "Do your homework." It's not enough to help with the homework. You go to the school and learn how they do math, so that you can tutor your child in math.

  

  Wednesday Martin
  • Opportunity
  • Motherhood
  • Prisoner

• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

  

  George Eliot
  • Force
  • Motherhood
  • Transforms