George Eliot Quotes

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

George Eliot

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• I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Great
  • Different
  • Art

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Great
  • Success
  • Trapped

• Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Happiness
  • inspirational

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Book
  • Point
  • Where

• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Violence
  • More

• You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • God
  • You
  • Government

• It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Always
  • Story
  • Last

• I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Respect
  • Look
  • Just

• I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Me

• The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • You
  • Question

• As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Deep
  • Rap

• I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Years
  • Right
  • Three

• They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Stop
  • Trust

• Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Work
  • Political
  • Religious

• The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

  

  Sahndra Fon Dufe
  • News
  • Headlines

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

  

  Clare Short
  • Suffering
  • Angry
  • Afraid

• But if we don’t figure out the way the world works and is, and if we don’t live in harmony with it, we will be miserable and no better off than the dumb animals.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Animals
  • Harmony

• Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

  

  George Eliot
  • Chaos
  • Harmony
  • Degenerated