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New Quotes by George Eliot
- Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of…
- Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach…
- There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as…
- Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but…
- Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism -…
- It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers…
- The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
- To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,…
- Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to…
- No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I…
- Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and…
- One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
- If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
- We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
- If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age…
- Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new…
- We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest…
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- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
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- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin