Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

Thomas Carlyle

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• If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Future
  • Science
  • Crazy

• I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Future
  • Day

• It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Think
  • Future
  • Dream

• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Future
  • Space

• I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Future

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Kids
  • Future
  • Coffee

• For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Future
  • Political

• Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Good
  • Future
  • Me

• I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Life
  • Different
  • Future

• I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Future
  • Know
  • Decide

• Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Kids
  • Future

• Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Together
  • Future
  • Faith

• Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Future
  • Law
  • Picture

• When you use your faith, it gives you energy. It gives you the ability to be able to see beyond where you are right now and see into the future.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Faith

• Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Future
  • Change

• The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Future
  • Respect
  • Friend

• The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Future

• The month of April 2000 will provide an unprecedented showcase for the clean energy options available to individuals, businesses and the government, .. As tens of millions of people take action to support clean energy during Earth Month, the 'New Energy for a New Era' campaign will catapult us toward a clean and affordable energy future.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • People
  • Future
  • Earth

• Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Dad
  • Party

• 'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Fear

• I began these clinics because I want to share my years of experience in around the ring, in addition to my proven winning methods. I have seen the good and the bad. I have learned valuable lessons, which I want to pass along to those truly interested in the sport.

  

  Emanuel Steward
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Bad

• I'm good at anything that's country - biscuits, gravy, chicken-fried steak. Look at me, for God's sake. I cook what I like to eat.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Good
  • God
  • Country

• Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Future
  • Traveling
  • Naps