George Meredith Quotes

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

George Meredith

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• It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Vanity

• Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

  

  Said Musa
  • Work
  • English
  • Independent

• To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

  

  Nas
  • Version
  • Owning
  • Creatively

• I have always loathed working out.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Always
  • Working
  • Out

• My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Mind
  • Game
  • Fan

• I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Writing
  • School
  • Poetry

• There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Me
  • Belief

• If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • You
  • Nice
  • Promise

• If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Law
  • Focus

• It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

  

  Van Morrison
  • America
  • Me
  • Strange

• I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • House
  • Play
  • Film

• I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Happy
  • Free
  • Building

• I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Think
  • Evil
  • Behavior

• That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Great
  • Know
  • Apple

• Living in your genome is the history of our species.

  

  Barry Schuler
  • History
  • Living
  • Your

• I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Family
  • She
  • Father

• There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.

  

  Alfre Woodard
  • People
  • Heart
  • Together

• Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Father
  • Diamond
  • Caviar

• It may sound cliched, but 'Strictly' is a real journey. I try to encourage my partner to stay in as long as they can, but above all to enjoy it.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Long
  • Real
  • May

• Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Hold
  • Description
  • Cried

• I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Live
  • Advice
  • How

• Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

  

  George Meredith