George Eliot Quotes
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
Ian Wace -
Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
Ed Rendell -
Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
Zooey Deschanel -
If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
Kapil Dev -
How you manage change can make all the difference.
Irene Rosenfeld -
I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
D. B. Weiss
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
Abraham Maslow -
I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
Maiwenn -
Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
Babe Ruth -
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
Ralph Fiennes -
My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
Wallace Shawn -
If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
Larry Smith
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That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
Naomi Klein -
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.
Zainab Salbi -
The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
Sadhu Vaswani -
It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.
Daniel Craig -
We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
Amy Goodman
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Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.
Jane Roberts -
You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.
Saint Augustine -
One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.
Maria Semple -
Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
Plato -
A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.
Carol S. Dweck -
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
George Eliot