Deronda's Quotes

#1. Away from her lips. 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. No

George Eliot

#2. In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.

Marcel Duchamp

#3. As a designer, when someone wears my clothes, the biggest compliment I can receive is that the woman looks amazing because my designs have flattered her, not taken over her. I take that philosophy to heart myself each morning when I am getting ready for the day.

L'Wren Scott

#4. Throughout their friendship Deronda had been used to Hans' egotism, but he had never before felt intolerant of it: when Hans, habitually pouring out his own feelings and affairs, had never cared for any detail in return, and, if he chanced to know any, had soon forgotten it

George Eliot

#5. Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

Wayne Dyer

#6. I'm a child of the Cold War. You do not say, "Oh, my God, there are Russian planes, so I'm going to cede the field." I mean, what kind of world would we have had if the United States had done that for 60 years?

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#7. Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. Hans: [Y]ou can't conceive what a great fellow I'm going to be. The seed of immortality has sprouted within me.
Deronda: Only a fungoid growth, I daresay - a crowing disease in the lungs.

George Eliot

#9. ... I imagine her looking at me like that. Like I hung the moon and stars and everything in between, all of it just for her.

Monica Murphy