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People Quotes by George Eliot
- When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might…
- These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and…
- Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
- We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
- Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the…
- The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
- Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune…
- College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
- I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to…
- He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...
- You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
- Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything…
- A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the…
- I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider…
- Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
- A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
- People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
- Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
- 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…
- I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go…
- Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
- Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had…
- We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
- Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge…
- Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle