Quotes about Quote
She says, he is a great soul.—A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in!" said Mrs. Cadwallader.
— George Eliot
The cubic feet of oxygen yearly swallowed by a full-grown man — what a shudder they might have created in some Middlemarch circles! 'Oxygen! nobody knows what that may be — is it any wonder the cholera has got to Dantzic?
— George Eliot
character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
— George Eliot
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendoes.
— George Eliot
She controlled herself by the help of an inward defiance, and without other sign of emotion than this lip-paleness turned to her play. But Deronda's gaze seemed to have acted as an evil eye. Her stake was gone.
— George Eliot
Let the music which can take the possession of our frame and fill the air with joy for us, sound once more - what does it signify that we heard it found fault with in its absence?
— George Eliot
A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.
— George Eliot
Our deeds travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are.
— George Eliot
I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.
— Billy Graham
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
— Ambrose of Milan
Love is he, radiant with great splendor,And speaks to us of Thee, O Most High.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.
— Saint Jerome