Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.


Eliot Spitzer

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION
We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
The problem with a lot of Indian boys and girls is that they do not approach their partner, they are...
APURVA GAGLANI
The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS...
Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea...
JODI PICOULT
Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way".

(Note: What's that?...
DEYTH BANGER
I don't wish to imply that there aren't good things about you or that you're not an extraordinary pe...
GEORGE TSARGAS "NOW THAT IT'S OVER"
Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER
Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that...
DEYTH BANGER
Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ...
DEYTH BANGER
This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO
The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem t...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
If we do not understand something we pretend it does not exist .Pretending that something does not e...
GARY F EVANS...
People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS...
That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER
It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to takin...
PETE HEGSETH
I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
The way I see it: Why get out of bed when you can read about people who got out of bed?
-ERIC FOREMAN THAT 70'S SHOW
He who knows that he doesn't know, knows what he needs to know.
VIKRANT PARSAI
There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ...
GREG BEHRENDT
That's going to be VEEEEEEERYYYY Nasty....
DEYTH BANGER
Of another lie "You said that you will be with me...", "Everything what I want I will get..", but???...
DEYTH BANGER
Hey... you gonna ignore me like that?
...

Forever?
...

You gonna rej...
DEYTH BANGER
We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you ...
DEYTH BANGER
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY
Why try to have pigs fly
When ducks already can
_
Why try to have pigs fly
When ducks already can
ELLA C.
Jesus asks me to loosen my grip on the things that matter to me. It’s only then He can fill my han...
ANUSHA ATUKORALA
Mani nogurdina lielās lietas un norises. Es meklēju lielās norises mazajās.
IMANTS ZIEDONIS
If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices tha...
KATHY MATTEA
Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM
When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
If you allow mosquitoes to disturb your sound sleep, you shall never be able to wake up healthy and ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you ne...
BLAKE LIVELY
Yesterday, I was feeling fine... I was into the mood of eating... drinking... but today... I am not ...
DEYTH BANGER
Tinder, sucks… few matches I got.... How FUCKING odd is that.
DEYTH BANGER
My voice is never much louder than a ripple, but even small voices sound loud when you talk about th...
NATALIE LLOYD
Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things t...
G.K. CHESTERTON
I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
DEB CALETTI
I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that k...
IPPY AIONA
I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back.
HEIDI KLUM
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER
Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU
I believe that all men and women will be saved.
PAT BUCKLEY
Getting healthy doesn't have to be a chore. The Five Rivers Journey requires minimal extra effort fo...
DEV LAHLI
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON
It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and i...
ADRIEN BRODY
At that darkest moment, while drowning in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy, reflect on this univers...
KEN POIROT
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL
We have the capacity to become a unique and special person unlike any other. Draw on your inner reso...
ANGIE KARAN
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
STUDS TERKEL
Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from.
STEVEN MAGEE
Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or what...
JOHN GREEN
The things that last..the things that are eternal are the things that pass through judgment and fire...
KIM BOOHER
Who am I? I am that. Nothing can change that. Words, intellect and concepts can never reach that. It...
AMIT RAY
I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.
DEYTH BANGER
What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER
Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN
Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ...
HAIM SHAPIRA
I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degr...
CHERYL STRAYED
I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them ...
CANDACE CAMERON BURE
It's funny: when you make a film, you always look back, and there are always crucial decisions t...
PAUL GREENGRASS
We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the ...
WARREN FARRELL
Now that we've discovered how to actually develop policies and projects holistically, if we can ...
ALLAN SAVORY
A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p...
RON CARPENTER JR.
Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten t...
AARON TVEIT
People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.&#...
ZACK SNYDER
When you care about things, it ends up wearing you out.
IO SAKISAKA
Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a hu...
ZACHARY QUINTO
Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it ...
HAMILTON JORDAN
Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.
STACEY T. HUNT
We just kind of had a laid back approach to the game. Laid back not as in not caring, but we've take...
BRAD MILLER
I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean...
LISA GLATT
When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a com...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we f...
PAUL RYAN
Vents were added to the rear bonnet in 1972 and resulted in wet engines and starting problems, and t...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
While getting lost in all those little things that seem so important, don't forget the little things...
VIRGINIA ALISON
When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your si...
GISELE BUNDCHEN
I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,'...
ICE T
Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you somethi...
TRACY CHAPMAN
When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we sti...
LINDSAY LOHAN
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs...
GRACE LEE BOGGS
I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, becau...
LEMONY SNICKET
Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way str...
CHARLES KENNEDY
I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the ga...
MICHAEL STRAHAN
I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
SAM REED
My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Nothing less than 7 inches.
CASSANDRA CLARE
You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ...
RICHARD CURTIS
But despite the fact that life is full of risk, yet without taking risk, we stand a greater risk.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
I believe that I have such a vanilla life.
JEN LANCASTER

More Eliot Spitzer

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-...
ELIOT SPITZER
Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operation...
ELIOT SPITZER
I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.
ELIOT SPITZER
Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services co...
ELIOT SPITZER
Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid element...
ELIOT SPITZER
The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place...
ELIOT SPITZER
Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the sy...
ELIOT SPITZER
I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who...
ELIOT SPITZER
Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal,...
ELIOT SPITZER
From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, ...
ELIOT SPITZER
The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he c...
ELIOT SPITZER
Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country st...
ELIOT SPITZER
I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
ELIOT SPITZER
President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country th...
ELIOT SPITZER
The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in th...
ELIOT SPITZER
In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young...
ELIOT SPITZER
Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
ELIOT SPITZER
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were ...
ELIOT SPITZER
Delay is the enemy of progress.
ELIOT SPITZER
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformati...
ELIOT SPITZER
I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.
ELIOT SPITZER
When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of f...
ELIOT SPITZER
Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.
ELIOT SPITZER
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and d...
ELIOT SPITZER
The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, ...
ELIOT SPITZER
After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciat...
ELIOT SPITZER
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It i...
ELIOT SPITZER
While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruc...
ELIOT SPITZER
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logic...
ELIOT SPITZER
The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for ...
ELIOT SPITZER
In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our l...
ELIOT SPITZER
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial catac...
ELIOT SPITZER
A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues...
ELIOT SPITZER
Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long...
ELIOT SPITZER
As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interroga...
ELIOT SPITZER
Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do ...
ELIOT SPITZER
Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Ine...
ELIOT SPITZER
As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with ...
ELIOT SPITZER
We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. T...
ELIOT SPITZER
The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some a...
ELIOT SPITZER
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capac...
ELIOT SPITZER
I strongly urge all retailers to heed the warnings issued about these products, pull them from distr...
ELIOT SPITZER
Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it ...
ELIOT SPITZER
While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current...
ELIOT SPITZER
Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first t...
ELIOT SPITZER
The public expects and deserves the protection that effective government oversight provides. Until t...
ELIOT SPITZER
It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.
ELIOT SPITZER
Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.
ELIOT SPITZER
irrational and legally spurious.
ELIOT SPITZER
With this agreement, virtually the entire mutual fund industry has now sworn off improper trading pr...
ELIOT SPITZER
State and local regulators are the officials with the closest contact with the regulated community, ...
ELIOT SPITZER
Frankly, it was never practicable for the AG's office to receive a vast sum of money and then try to...
ELIOT SPITZER
It would be misguided and foolish to do so, ... It would undermine public confidence in the markets ...
ELIOT SPITZER
Proponents cleverly wrapped the word reform around the amendment, ... But calling a mule a thoroughb...
ELIOT SPITZER
The CEO was personally bought off by being given IPO allocations, ... Small investors were left hold...
ELIOT SPITZER
Representative Baker is an embarrassment. He is wrong on the issue of enforceability, ... His respon...
ELIOT SPITZER
We absolutely look forward to working with the SEC as a partner in this, ... We need them to come in...
ELIOT SPITZER
Mutual funds, who have a fiduciary duty to shareholders, who have made the representation that they ...
ELIOT SPITZER
Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the p...
ELIOT SPITZER
The hardest part was the ultimatums. Every time, you die a little bit because you think now it's goi...
ANKIE SPITZER
We didn't feel it was an affront or a negative thing, or an equation between the terrorists and the ...
ANKIE SPITZER
We need to be here with our children. We don't want to be over there at this time.
ANKIE SPITZER
That was a great win for Max. I liken him to the Energizer bunny because he just keeps going and goi...
LEE SPITZER
If you want to know how cheap power affects economic development ask Dresser-Rand if they'll stay he...
DANIEL SPITZER
Whether or not it's a pro or con depends upon who you are.
KURT SPITZER
Hopefully what everyone will walk away with is an experience of what it really does sound like down ...
BILLY SPITZER
It sounds like a subway train.
BILLY SPITZER
In some cases it's not exactly known how animals make these sounds, and what they use them for. It's...
BILLY SPITZER
The natural sounds that exist -- ice and rainstorms and earthquakes. And also the sounds of human ac...
BILLY SPITZER
Probably one of the weirdest sounds is from these bearded seals who live in the Arctic waters and th...
BILLY SPITZER
I didn't have the patience to study [words like] moms and dads and cats and dogs, so I set up an ind...
MARK SPITZER
The environmental impact statement explores all the social, environmental and economic impacts -- be...
DANIEL SPITZER
There will be positive declarations on both projects. There's no question about that.
DANIEL SPITZER
Both Andy and Johnny drove phenomenal races today. I'm proud of the whole team, and we'll look at th...
DAVE SPITZER
Team Cadillac has an exceptional driver lineup in 2006, and they're backed by a group of very talent...
DAVE SPITZER
We wanted to make them as light and as comfortable as eyewear.
MARK SPITZER
In that class I'm good for something. I'm good for the environment. I stress the urgency of the situ...
MARK SPITZER
Max is an anomaly in that this is only his second year wrestling in high school and he's improved by...
LEE SPITZER
Most commonly, in terms of relationship between the county and the city, you'll see the charter dele...
KURT SPITZER
It's hard to make generalizations about what a charter does because you don't know until you see it ...
KURT SPITZER
I'm going to set the strategy, we're the consultant, we're going to walk down from the mountain and ...
QUINN SPITZER
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT
It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrat...
ELIOT ENGEL
We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explo...
ELIOT ENGEL
Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to esca...
GEORGE ELIOT
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think t...
GEORGE ELIOT
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOT
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass gr...
GEORGE ELIOT
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOT
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen ea...
GEORGE ELIOT
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
GEORGE ELIOT
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
GEORGE ELIOT
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a mar...
GEORGE ELIOT
It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot It takes time to build a ca...
GEORGE ELIOT
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
CHARLES ELIOT
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into part...
GEORGE ELIOT
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
GEORGE ELIOT
The law's made to take care o' raskills.
GEORGE ELIOT
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOT
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
GEORGE ELIOT
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
GEORGE ELIOT
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
GEORGE ELIOT
My mind may be American but my heart is British.
T.S. ELIOT
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOT
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are m...
GEORGE ELIOT
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and i...
GEORGE ELIOT
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
GEORGE ELIOT
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT
So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel...
ALEXANDER ELIOT
Distracted from distraction by distraction
T.S. ELIOT
Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sou...
GEORGE ELIOT
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice...
T.S. ELIOT
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, know...
GEORGE ELIOT
What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections...
T.S. ELIOT
Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
GEORGE ELIOT
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain ...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
GEORGE ELIOT
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
GEORGE ELIOT
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOT
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOT
Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOT
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOT
Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T.S. ELIOT
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...
GEORGE ELIOT
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husband...
GEORGE ELIOT
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do bet...
GEORGE ELIOT
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
GEORGE ELIOT
Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
GEORGE ELIOT
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOT
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to inf...
GEORGE ELIOT
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in go...
GEORGE ELIOT
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, brin...
GEORGE ELIOT
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass gr...
GEORGE ELIOT
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by...
GEORGE ELIOT
Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
ELIOT PORTER
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is fa...
GEORGE ELIOT
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outwor...
GEORGE ELIOT
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls...
GEORGE ELIOT
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads ...
GEORGE ELIOT
Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in...
GEORGE ELIOT
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to ...
GEORGE ELIOT
Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
GEORGE ELIOT
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT
Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOT
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine o...
GEORGE ELIOT
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
GEORGE ELIOT
It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.
GEORGE ELIOT
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are cer...
GEORGE ELIOT
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
GEORGE ELIOT
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
GEORGE ELIOT
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of ...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an ...
GEORGE ELIOT
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
GEORGE ELIOT
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
GEORGE ELIOT
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear decei...
GEORGE ELIOT
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but...
GEORGE ELIOT
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
GEORGE ELIOT
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight ...
GEORGE ELIOT
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
GEORGE ELIOT
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understa...
GEORGE ELIOT
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go al...
GEORGE ELIOT
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
GEORGE ELIOT
For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or ...
GEORGE ELIOT
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts ...
GEORGE ELIOT
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which w...
GEORGE ELIOT
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for th...
GEORGE ELIOT
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li...
GEORGE ELIOT
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
GEORGE ELIOT
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT
Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOT
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disco...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow...
GEORGE ELIOT
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOT
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances?...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOT
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be call...
GEORGE ELIOT
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
GEORGE ELIOT
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOT
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...
GEORGE ELIOT
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying s...
GEORGE ELIOT
Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first...
GEORGE ELIOT
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
GEORGE ELIOT
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
GEORGE ELIOT
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort t...
GEORGE ELIOT
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
GEORGE ELIOT
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves...
GEORGE ELIOT
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
GEORGE ELIOT
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffe...
GEORGE ELIOT
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
GEORGE ELIOT
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
GEORGE ELIOT
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what mus...
GEORGE ELIOT
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOT