George Eliot Quotes

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

George Eliot

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

• I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Music
  • Love
  • New York

• The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Creative
  • Building
  • Aim

• 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

• Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Political
  • Practice
  • Doctor

• We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Interest
  • Civil War

• If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Book
  • Him
  • Phone

• I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Think
  • Me
  • Player

• Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Food
  • Progress
  • Late

• Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Government

• What Miss Moore’s best poetry does, I can say best in her words: it 'comes into and steadies the soul,' so that the reader feels himself 'a life prisoner, but reconciled.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Words

• I have always criticised violence in my speeches but the way the trouble in just two per cent of the area is blown up and used against us should be countered. Arundhati Roy paints Gujaratis as rapists and then goes scot-free by apologising. Isn't it an insult to Gujarat?

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Up
  • Free
  • Violence

• 'I would define ‘avarice’ as a consequence of the human estate: a condition arising from turbulence and inequality. In none of the paradises, where conditions are no doubt optimum, does ‘avarice’ exert force. Here, we are men struggling toward perfection and ‘avarice’ is a station along the way.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Men
  • Doubt

• A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • People
  • Men
  • Mother

• Well, I'm not talkin' bout locking down forever, baby.That would be too demanding.I'm just talkin' bout two lonely peopleWho might reach a little understanding.I'm not talkin' bout knocking out heavenwith whether we're wrong or we're right.I'm not talkin' bout hooking up and hanging out,I'm just talkin' bout tonight.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Understanding
  • Forever

• Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• We in El Paso and Juarez are literally one community. There's no separation; there's no DMZ; there's no buffer.

  

  Beto O'Rourke
  • Community

• My early comics are really reflective of being kind of a befuddled, single loser in the Bay Area, and I think having kids has been by far the most profound impact on me as a person and as an artist.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Kids
  • Single
  • Profound

• Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Law
  • Heaven
  • Poetry

• Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Heaven
  • Deep
  • Despair

• The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Heaven
  • Results
  • Direction

• The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Nazis for very specific reasons. They saw in the Jews the ultimate enemy, who was behind all the other enemies they had. And the Jews were in their eyes Satan; coming from a Christian background, although anti-Christian, if somebody was Satan you knew what to do with him. Murder him. Kill him. Annihilate him. Ultimately. Perhaps drive him out first. And then finally when this didn't work kill him. And it wasn't really directed against the Jews of country X but against the concept of the Jew. The Jew. Anywhere. Everywhere. At all times. Forever. And that is unique. That has never happened before but it can happen again. The idea of some powerful force that unless it is totally annihilated there's no chance for your survival. That was the Nazi ideology.

  

  Yehuda Bauer
  • Enemy
  • Holocaust
  • Jews

• Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

  

  George Eliot
  • Heaven
  • Jews
  • Useful