Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
Oliver North -
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill -
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
E. T. Bell -
When I was five I had violin lessons.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R. D. Laing -
And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
Patricia Heaton -
The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde -
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Oscar Wilde -
The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.
S. C. Gwynne -
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca
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I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
Erykah Badu -
The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.
Madeleine de Souvre -
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
Marian Wright Edelman -
The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.
George Clooney -
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
Plato
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
Plato -
I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.
Sarah Dessen -
Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.
Ava Gardner -
I believe tactics have to be based on a strategy of creative tension. … If what you’ve done is made everything about ‘Oh, they just broke a bunch of windows,’ not ‘Oh, man, this is serious,’ you’re in trouble. That being said, if you look at what happened in Baltimore, there was a lot of righteous anger in that uprising that did advance the conversation. It wasn’t until Baltimore that people started seriously talking about the social conditions in a lot of these communities.
Eugene Puryear -
We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.
Elliott Colla -
Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
Thomas Carlyle