Quote by George Eliot Download Open image ““the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under”” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“The centipede, having a hundred limbs, can find no useless feet;” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“it's one of the secrets of her long-lasting mobility, keeping her toes spread and feet grounded, same as all the other beasts of nature” — Bernardine Evaristo Copy Share Image
“We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“…certain feet were made for stepping on ,in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare and minimize the ancient insolence of office..” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There will always be something a little off, but like a three-legged dog, you’ll learn to walk again.” — Renee Carlino Copy Share Image
“A skeleton, even a walking one, is at least human; Death of a sort lurks inside every living creature.” — Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Human beings are basically huge monkeys that walked upright, but they can be pretty full of themselves.” — Hiro Arikawa Copy Share Image
“As the tortoise can draw in his legs, and if you strike him, not one foot comes out,” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“God I want you in some primal, wild way animals want each other. Untamed and full of teeth. God I want you, In some… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
“I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to the other” — Henry David Thoreau 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