George Eliot Quotes
The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.George Eliot
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S. J. Perelman -
Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
Campbell Scott -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
Kate Mulgrew -
I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
Paris Hilton -
Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
Yoko Ono
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
Bear Grylls -
I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
Sam Worthington -
India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
Vanessa Lengies -
I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.
Ioan Gruffudd -
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
Mac Davis
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I've been honored to take part in protests and events across Illinois, joining with thousands of you in the resistance, making calls, sending letters, and making sure Washington understands that we will not allow the ACA to be repealed.
J. B. Pritzker -
Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
Ben Carson -
In the federal confirmation process, a standard question from the judiciary committee is, 'Well, if you're confirmed will you legislate?' And, with a look of horror, the nominee says, 'Oh, I won't legislate.' Well, what about the law of contract and tort; where do they think it came from, the stork?
Anthony Kennedy -
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions agst. danger real or pretended from abroad.
James Madison -
I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
Antonya Nelson -
It's a small world when you're from South Sudan.
Alek Wek
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So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway -
And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
Pierre Loti -
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
Natalia Makarova -
We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.
Madeleine de Souvre -
The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.
George Eliot