George Eliot Quotes

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

George Eliot

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• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • World
  • Gold
  • Race

• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • War
  • Fear

• Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Question
  • Sometimes

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Brazil

• We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • World
  • Country
  • Technology

• The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Age
  • Story
  • Meaningful

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Kind
  • Matter
  • Strange

• The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Mistake
  • Thought

• I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Years
  • Back
  • Playoffs

• D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.

  

  Wale
  • Like
  • Person
  • Agree

• I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Think
  • Funny

• I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Just

• The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Corruption
  • Outside
  • Africa

• For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Children
  • Rest
  • Snow

• Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Men

• We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Standup
  • Crimes
  • Self-affirmation

• I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Trying

• He refuses to let bitterness poison his heart. He chooses instead to believe in the healing power of love.

  

  Nancy Atherton
  • Believe
  • Poison
  • Refuses

• Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

  

  George Eliot
  • Believe
  • Brave
  • Minority