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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
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 momentIsolated, 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
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 Godit is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning. — George 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
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
— 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
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
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
Your shadow at morning striding behind youOr 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
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
that which is only livingCan 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
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
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
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
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
People who seem to enjoy their ill-temper have a way of keeping it in fine condition by inflicting privations on themselves.
— 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
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 elementsThat 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
It is worth dying to find out what life is.
— T. S. Eliot