Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.Jane Welsh Carlyle
Quotes to Explore
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Abbas Kiarostami -
To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
Jack Keane -
Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
Adam Ostrow -
It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
Daisy Berkowitz
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
Dale Earnhardt -
My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
Sam Smith -
You have to open up on stage.
Karen O -
The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
Ian Caldwell -
I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
Fiona Apple -
There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
Gavin Newsom
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I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
Maeve Binchy -
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
Ralph Fiennes -
I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
Taylor Swift -
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie -
I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
Eartha Kitt -
I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
Dan Hicks
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The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.
John Oliver -
Is the flow of time something real, or might our sense of time passing be just an illusion that hides the fact that what is real is only a vast collection of memories?
Lee Smolin -
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Everybody doesn't want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it's a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid.
Chuck Liddell -
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
Jane Welsh Carlyle