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

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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
  • Friends
  • Know
  • More

• There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Art
  • Like
  • Modern

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• 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
  • Different
  • War
  • Change

• Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Opportunity
  • Team
  • Change

• 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
  • Day
  • Technology
  • Learning

• It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Important
  • Very
  • Tone

• I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Want
  • Wife
  • Car

• 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
  • Die
  • Successful
  • Week

• You have to open up on stage.

  

  Karen O
  • Up
  • You
  • Stage

• 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
  • Long
  • Today
  • Jesus

• People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• 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
  • Learn
  • Advice
  • Mistakes

• 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
  • Up
  • Live
  • Bad

• 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
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Understanding

• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Feel

• 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
  • Change
  • Day
  • Year

• I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Road

• Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

  

  Emily Levine
  • Up
  • Age

• There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Morning
  • Child
  • Christmas

• Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Life
  • Success
  • Acceptance

• The greatest threat to the war on terrorism isn't the Islamic insurgency - our military can handle the savages. It's traitorous liberals trying to lose the war at home.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Trying
  • Home
  • War

• 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
  • Life
  • Hope