George Eliot Quotes

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

George Eliot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

Topics

SuccessBestManWorldThinksHe

Entrepreneurship is, in large part, about building something from nothing, which means creating a cause.

Joe Lonsdale

BuildingCreatingNothingSomething

The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you.

Jesse Kellerman

TimeDisciplineCommitmentJobFun

Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.

John Cornyn

WorldBlessingsCountryLibertySaid

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

Maureen McCormick

ThinkSelfStrangeAlwaysHerRole

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Jeannette Rankin

PeopleYouGoWillTakeFar

Some things hit close to home with people, and it's going to be hard to tell someone who lost somebody on 9/11 that a 9/11 joke is funny.

Michael Che

FunnyHomePeopleSomeoneLostHard

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

Robin Sloan

LibraryUpMichiganSomePublic

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.

Ronnie Corbett

ComedyYoungCalmnessThoseHad

It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.

Matt Bomer

PeopleGayRightJustLikeHappened

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

Michael Novak

TurnChristianityJudaismUtopian

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

Jason Blum

ValuePeopleReasonScaredLaughing

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

Douglas Feith

WorkDecisionGovernmentKeyBecause

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