Meekness Quote by George Eliot

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Sometimes he felt as if he'd been born in the wrong century. The people of this time were all wrong for him, and he…

— Heather Massey

“he never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by…

— Georgette Heyer

“He was beholden to no one, and would never take on trust what others might maintain to be true without himself coming to an…

— Richard Feynman

“It was almost as if he had become, in his inveterate goodness, a little bit of a simpleton as is bound to happen, I…

— Anne Rice

“He firmly believed that everything he did was right, that he ought on all occasions to have his own way—and like the sting of…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“He was a man who regarded his opinions, however briefly adopted, as revealed truth: he never backed down, or listened, or compromised. He was…

— Ben Macintyre

“He had seen how people came a cropper by giving way to impulse. It was to his judiciousness, at every turn, that he owed…

— Shirley Hazzard

“Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium — indifference.”

— Leon Trotsky

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the…

— Jetta Carleton

“Deeply he felt, more deeply than ever before, in this hour, the indestructibility of every life, the eternity of every moment.”

— Hermann Hesse