Dubious Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dubious Eggs Handsome Hopeful World
“We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos.—In fact, the world is full of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one. — Charles A. Dana Copy Share Image
But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of… — William James Copy Share Image
Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In the world according to the positivist, the inspiring thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're sunny side up.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in… — Deborah Harkness 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
It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and… — Albert Kesselring Copy Share Image
The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian." Nor can it thrive on dubious attempts to… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's a fraught, kind of laden world of performance that I think can be really dubious, but it's also super fun to almost… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ...… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class… — Hubert Harrison Copy Share Image
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious… — William James Copy Share
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean, roughly, the view that many fundamentally different kinds of psychological mechanisms must be postulated in order to explain the facts of mental life. Faculty psychology takes seriously the apparent heterogeneity of the mental and is impressed… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share
Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
You see, my Lord Archbishop, what is "dubious" about my theology is not that it contradicts particular doctrinal teachings, things are much worse or… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image