Dreary Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dreary Life Motive Want
Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share
Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive and a… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 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
With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now… — Lani Guinier Copy Share Image
The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
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