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.

George Eliot

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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

• 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 image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Sun

• One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.

  

  Al Gore
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Failure

• When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Men
  • Small
  • Sun

• Griffin, please,” she whispered. “Do you want me?” he asked. “Yes!” She tossed her head restlessly. She’d explode if he didn’t give her release soon. “Do you need me?” He kissed her nipple too gently. “Please, please, please.” “Do you love me?” And somehow, despite her extremis, she saw the gaping hole of the trap. She peered up at him blindly in the dark. She couldn’t see his face, his expression. “Griffin,” she sighed hopelessly. “You can’t say it, can you?” he whispered. “Can’t admit it either.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Needs
  • Faces
  • Expression

• All living things on earth are kindred.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Earth

• The love, the echoes of long ago you needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • World
  • Long
  • Dream

• The most powerful people on earth are focus groups.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Groups

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• 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