Affected Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affected Change Language Persons Sensibility Susceptible Tone Unexpected
Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us. — David Riesman Copy Share Image
The words we say affect more then just us, it can affect the rest of our being. — Heritier Ndele Copy Share Image
Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that change comes… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it… — Neal Ascherson 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
To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls… — Dabney Coleman Copy Share Image
First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Then, the other thing that affected my interest in choices growing up was the fact that I was going blind and that meant that… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is… — David Hare Copy Share Image