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.
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.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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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.
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Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.
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Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
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A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
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Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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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.
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People are sheepish when they approach me.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.
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Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.
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A joke a day keeps the gloom away!
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If you want to live like a Republican, you've got to vote for a Democrat.
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The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.
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It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
