George Eliot Quotes

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

Quotes to Explore
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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True love is the parent of humility.
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In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.
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There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.