Expectations Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expectations Hope Shadow Shadow Annihilates Sunbeams Sunbeams Shadow Woman Hopes Women Woven Woven Sunbeams
Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop. — Marcello Mastroianni Copy Share Image
“Solar Eclipse Each morning I wake invisible. I make a needle from a porcupine quill, sew feet to legs, lift spine onto my thighs.… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“The Shadow. It cannot be grasped. Chase your shadow and it will, flee; turn your back on it and it will follow you. It… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Look upon men and things with the inner eye, with its form and desire, never forgetting that the shadow they throw as they pass… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Twilight Surprise” poem: “The sky burns down, A rim of coals glowing gold and red, Limned with orange again And kissed with hints of… — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
“In The Sunset Sky The sunset sky dazzling with the golden hues, Taking bow in brilliant sparkle of experience Is it not a climax,… — Soma Mukherjee Copy Share Image
For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“ She Was A Phantom of Delight She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
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