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Us Quotes by George Eliot
- Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
- I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
- Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then…
- All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
- Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
- There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
- Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain…
- 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…
- Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we…
- The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we…
- 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…
- We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
- It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit…
- 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…
- It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born…
- Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection…
- It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking…
- It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is…
- We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
- Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't…
- But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him…
- As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps. We are like…
- Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
- We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
- Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong