George Eliot Quotes

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

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• When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'

  

  Kate Moss
  • Want
  • Me
  • Body

• We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Good
  • Society
  • Animal

• That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Why
  • Team
  • Sports

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Generation
  • Walk

• I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Born
  • England
  • I Was Born

• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Day
  • Sympathy

• That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Respect
  • Football
  • Reason

• Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Technology
  • Philosophy

• I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Better
  • I Can
  • Score

• I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Great
  • Black
  • Eyes

• As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Body

• What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Good
  • America
  • Quality

• To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Always
  • Natural
  • Expect

• Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Good
  • Stand

• Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friend
  • Teacher
  • Hero

• I have very special memories of the West Ham fans.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • Memories

• There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They're always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they're looking for an error or to criticize. And it's not conducive to good work.

  

  Desiree Rogers
  • Good
  • Work
  • Environment

• It is not good to feel too much joy, nor to be glad that our body lives. For we matter not and it must not matter to us whether we live or die, which is to be as our brothers will it. But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Good
  • Live
  • Die

• In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

  

  George Eliot
  • Good
  • Women
  • Marriage