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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds.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 love paying people to touch me. Nail techs, hair stylists, dermatologists, make-up artists, osteopaths: you name it, I love it.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • People
  • Up
  • Hair

• 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

• We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

  

  B. F. Skinner

• Mack was getting frustrated. He spoke louder, 'But, don't I have a right to...' To complete a sentence without being interrupted? Not in reality. But as long as you think you do, you will surely get ticked off when someone cuts you off, even if it is God.

  

  William P. Young
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Reality

• Hubble wasn't designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a little bit of modification to the software, it could look at solar system objects.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Solar System
  • Hubble
  • Astronomers

• Going public is one step in the life cycle of a company; it's not the last step.

  

  David Cohen
  • Life

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

  

  George Eliot
  • Force
  • Motherhood
  • Transforms