Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Books
  • Forgotten
  • Remembered

• I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Want
  • Remembered

• I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • Want
  • Girl

• An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Devil
  • Remembered

• I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Like
  • Remembered
  • Succeeding

• You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Business
  • Remembered
  • Recognized

• I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Lead
  • Remembered

• Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Kind
  • Present
  • Consciousness

• Nog remembered what an Earth-style omelet was made from, from his time at Starfleet Academy—bird eggs and flavored mold. In a word, revolting.

  

  S. D. Perry
  • Remembered
  • Revolting
  • Earth-style

• It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

  

  Confucius
  • Root
  • Neglected
  • Springs

• There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced.

  

  Confucius
  • Flower
  • Cases
  • Produced

• For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Should
  • Errors
  • Remembered

• The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Life
  • Remembered
  • Quoted

• After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Remembered
  • Considered
  • Discussed

• I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

  

  Bono U2
  • God
  • Believe
  • Remembered

• You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Bells
  • Springs
  • Fresh Water

• I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Risk
  • Remembered
  • Runs

• Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Storm
  • Rocks
  • Remembered

• I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law, or if I think there has beenperjury or injustice, I will weigh the petition most carefully, but I do not permit myself to be moved by more harrowing details, and I try to treat each case as if I was reviewing it or hearing it for the first time from the bench.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Mistake

• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • God
  • Praise
  • Enjoying

• Civilization no longer represents the conscience of the individuals who must find therein their work. The facts and forces which now organize industry and so-called justice, violate the best instincts of mankind.

  

  George Davis Herron
  • Work
  • Mankind
  • Conscience

• The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Remembered
  • Springs
  • Blossoming