George Eliot Quotes

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

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• Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Experience
  • American
  • Alien

• I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Music
  • Black
  • Culture

• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Family
  • Black
  • Fans

• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Win

• I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • School
  • Bad

• When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• The most pressure I felt was for the first 'Paranormal Activity,' because when it was released, whether it was going to be a hit or not, I knew it was going to be a life-altering event for me.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Life
  • Pressure
  • Hit

• Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

  

  Otto Weininger

• Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.

  

  Patanjali
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Peace

• I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business

• How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Dying

• Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Great
  • Words
  • Poetry

• The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Men

• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  

  Larry Wall

• Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Fear

• The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Savage

• Luiheid mag aantrekkelijk schijnen, werken geeft bevrediging.

  

  Anne Frank

• We all know that a good example is more effective than advice. So set a good example, and it won't take long for others to follow.

  

  Anne Frank
  • Good
  • Long
  • Advice

• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Famous

• I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the food was incredibly gray - the food had, like, new kinds of grayness specially invented for it.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Up
  • Food
  • Sky

• I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

  

  John Wayne
  • World
  • Truth
  • Success

• He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Sex

• Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

  

  George Eliot
  • Death
  • Physician
  • Journeying