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When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes. — Eliot Spitzer

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. — George Eliot

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness. — George Eliot

Happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired. — George Eliot

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years. — George Eliot

One starts an action simply because one must do something. — T. S. Eliot

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point. — George Eliot

But womanly, I hope, said Mrs. Garth, half suspecting that Mrs. Casaubon might not hold the true principle of subordination. — George Eliot

Under the vague dullness of the gray hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object and finds it in the privation of an untried good. — George Eliot

Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment. — T. S. Eliot

Are you completely slow? YES. I'm mental. This is why I have a list called 'how to be normal — Anne Eliot

Those who trust us educate us. — George Eliot

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject. — Eliot Porter

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. — T. S. Eliot

Please don't tell me you drive with your eyes closed. — Anne Eliot

Souls live on in perpetual echoes. — George Eliot

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. — T. S. Eliot

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts. — George Eliot

Justice is like the kingdom of God
it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning. — George Eliot

We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on. — T. S. Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. — George Eliot

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done. — George Eliot

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life. — George Eliot

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. — George Eliot

Put on a face to meet the faces that you meet - T S Eliot - used in The Book Of Peach — T. S. Eliot

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. — George Eliot

In a paradise with sweet laughs for bird-notes, and blue eyes for a heaven. — George Eliot

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form. — T. S. Eliot

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you. — George Eliot

Hetty did not understand how anybody could be very fond of middle-aged people. And — George Eliot

John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world. — George Eliot

Perhaps we don't always discriminate between sense and nonsense. — George Eliot

It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money. — George Eliot

neighbourly kindness is among those things that are the more precious the older they get. Indeed, — George Eliot

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. — George Eliot

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world. — Charles William Eliot

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party. — Eliot Spitzer

No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes. — George Eliot

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will. — George Eliot

Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know, said Mr. Brooke, — George Eliot

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. — Charles William Eliot

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. — George Eliot

Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; — T. S. Eliot

I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research. — Eliot Engel

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer. — George Eliot

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson. — George Eliot

What is the use of being exquisite if you are not seen by the best judges? — George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. — George Eliot

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore. — George Eliot

What is that noise? — T. S. Eliot

You will have to live with those memories and make them into something new. Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning. — T. S. Eliot

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream. — John Eliot

Would it have been worthwhile
If one settling a pillow by her head should say:
That is not what I meant at all
That is not it at all — T. S. Eliot

April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock. — T. S. Eliot

that which is only living
Can only die — T. S. Eliot

Gwendolen would not have liked to be an object of disgust to this husband whom she hated: she liked all disgust to be on her side. — George Eliot

And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it. — T. S. Eliot

What is that *smell*?"
Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air. — Keith R.A. DeCandido

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. — George Eliot

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past. — George Eliot

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. — George Eliot

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes. — George Eliot

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product. — Eliot Spitzer

Lucky. Lucky. Lucky girl.
Nothing happened.
Nothing happened. — Anne Eliot

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. — George Eliot

If you put him a-horseback on politics, I warn you of the consequences. It was all very well to ride on sticks at home and call them ideas. — George Eliot

We die with the dying;
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them. — T. S. Eliot

No man can be wise on an empty stomach. — George Eliot

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations. — George Eliot

when the people have made up their mind as they are making it up now, they don't want a man - they only want a vote. — George Eliot

Survival is your strength not your shame. — T. S. Eliot

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered. — George Eliot

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me. — T. S. Eliot

Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek. — Alexander Eliot

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. — George Eliot

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes, — T. S. Eliot

My mind may be American but my heart is British. — T. S. Eliot

A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing! — Samuel Eliot Morison

Each day a raid on the inarticulate--T.S. Eliot — T. S. Eliot

The pain of living and the drug of dreams
curl up the small soul in the window seat. — T. S. Eliot

People who seem to enjoy their ill-temper have a way of keeping it in fine condition by inflicting privations on themselves. — George Eliot

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. — George Eliot

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. — George Eliot

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin. — T. S. Eliot

A woman may get to love by degrees - the best fire does not flare up the soonest. — George Eliot

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare? — T. S. Eliot

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. — T. S. Eliot

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it. — George Eliot

Between the vision and the act lies the shadow. — T. S. Eliot

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. — George Eliot

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. — T. S. Eliot

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world. — T. S. Eliot

A woman mixed of such fine elements
That were all virtue and religion dead
She'd make them newly, being what she was. — George Eliot

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. — George Eliot

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape. — George Eliot

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window. — George Eliot

It is worth dying to find out what life is. — T. S. Eliot