Quote by George Eliot Download Open image ““But it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.”” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Defiance of the way things are is the only way to embrace what's coming.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
“It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.” — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“I think one thing today and another tomorrow. That is really all that's the matter with me, except a crazy defiance and a lack… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There are some things that are worth fighting for, no matter the outcome, and you are one of them.” — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
“It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than it is to live up to them.” — Adlai E. Steveson Copy Share Image
“Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.” — André Maurois 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
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