Thomas Carlyle Quotes

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

Thomas Carlyle

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• The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Man
  • You
  • Black

• When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Woman

• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Man
  • Words

• If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Want
  • Man

• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Nature

• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Man
  • Rich

• You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Feeling
  • Never
  • Returning

• If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Authoritative

• Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • May
  • Man
  • Same

• The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • More
  • Bored

• What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Man
  • Question

• I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Admire

• Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Man
  • Year
  • Jazz

• Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Why
  • Man
  • Society

• One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Long
  • Man
  • Past

• I saw the Kino print of 'The Man From Beyond,' but apparently a superior new print has been produced by Restored Serials. Maybe a few snippets of missing footage will close up some of the plot holes, but I have my doubts.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Man
  • Missing

• There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Relationship

• Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.

  

  Arvo Part
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Song
  • Man
  • Hero

• What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Man
  • Feeling
  • Break