George Eliot Quotes

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

George Eliot

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• God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • God
  • Black
  • Mistake

• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • World
  • Writing
  • Why

• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Breakfast

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • House
  • Opinion

• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.

  

  Sam Neill
  • America
  • Want
  • Learn

• It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Future
  • Mistake

• Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Cutting
  • Debate
  • Off

• Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Good
  • Children
  • Abundance

• I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Me
  • Day
  • Plan

• Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Up
  • You
  • Internet

• When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Country
  • Vote
  • Voting

• I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Believe
  • You
  • Attention

• I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Suffering

• I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Quality
  • Pride

• Every country wants to protect its athletes because it's ultimately Germany vs. Spain, America vs. China; sports are an extension of the government because of national pride.

  

  Bryan Fogel
  • Country
  • America
  • Sports

• To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers' pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd In process of the seasons have I seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye
  • Pride
  • Spring

• The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

  

  George Eliot
  • Pride
  • Gifts
  • Barrier