Quote by George Eliot

Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own.

Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet wel

Summary

The quote portrays the author's depiction of a character's unwavering optimism. It describes a feeling of contentment and happiness that individuals may experience during their youthful and healthy days. The quote compares this feeling to an idyllic sunny afternoon, where life seems full of endless possibilities. The character feels a sense of abundant time and opportunities ahead, creating a serene and unstrained state of mind, as if they possess the entire beautiful landscape and have no urgency to quickly explore it.

Topics

Youth Potential Optimism

By George Eliot

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, a

A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Robert G. Ingersoll

When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attr

When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.

You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.

You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.

Custom is second nature.

Custom is second nature.

Augustine of Hippo

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particula

It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it's true, or true as far as it goes. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or for propriety.

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Success & Failure

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management an

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

James MacGregor Burns

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

On May 14 I was informed that the Provisional Government of

On May 14 I was informed that the Provisional Government of Israel was planning to proclaim a Jewish state at midnight that day, Palestine time, which was when the British mandate came to an end. I decided to move at once and give American recognition to the new nation. I instructed a member of my staff to communicate my decision to the State Department and prepare it for transmission to Ambassador Austin at the United Nations in New York. About thirty minutes later, exactly eleven minutes after Israel had been proclaimed a state, Charlie Ross, my press secretary, handed the press the announcement of the de facto recognition by the United States of the provisional government of Israel.

It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can a

It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse

Bertrand Russell