George Eliot Quotes
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
Randy Travis -
It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
Olly Murs -
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Samuel Beckett -
Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.
Dan Pink -
Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
Damien Fahey -
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
Brian Tracy -
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Oscar Wilde -
I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.
Robert Baden-Powell -
People are sheepish when they approach me.
Ryan Phillippe -
Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.
Randy Alcorn -
I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
Daniel Bruhl
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Why isn't everything exploding?!
Michael Bay -
The only thing I can be sure of at any given time is what I am thinking myself. I have no idea what the others are thinking. Do they think space is big and dangerous? I do. What do they believe in? I think nobody ought to be alone. That one should be with someone. With friends. With the person one loves. I think it is important to love. I think it's the most important thing.
Erlend Loe -
The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
Valentina Matviyenko -
The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
H. P. Lovecraft -
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
George Eliot