Unhistoric Acts Quotes & Sayings

And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women.
Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable.
For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch — George Eliot

We share half our genes with the banana. — Robert May, Baron May Of Oxford

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed. — Dwayne Johnson

You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are. — Paul Theroux

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. — George Eliot

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly. — Eric Idle

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene. — Marianne Moore

for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts . . ., on those, she — Ursula Maria Mandel

...in the tiny 'unhistoric acts' of goodness which she performs within her limited circle a ripple of influence has been set in motion which may eventually lap the edge of the world. — Holly Chamberlin

Adam looked up at Ronan. "I know it was you," he said. "I figured it out. The rent."
He held Ronan's gaze for just a moment longer, until something inside Ronan unwound and he almost said something. — Maggie Stiefvater