Thomas Carlyle Quotes

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Important
  • Person
  • Luck

• My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Amazing
  • Sense
  • Living

• In the broader sense at Digitas, I've been very involved in media and publishing.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Sense
  • Media
  • Involved

• Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.

  

  Edd Roush
  • Place
  • Sense
  • Take

• The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Time
  • Sense
  • Experienced

• There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Real
  • Sense
  • Camaraderie

• Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Men
  • Women
  • Humor

• The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Sense
  • Nonsense

• I'm not a creature of Washington.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Creature
  • Washington

• May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.

  

  Jean Patou
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Creature

• I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Single
  • Books
  • Sense

• Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Children who are accustomed to being treated well internalize that treatment and have a permanent sense of well-being. But children whose every need is instantly gratified and who are constantly praised to the skies do not have the same sense of well-being; rather they may feel despair or rage when that gratification is withheld, or when everyone doesn't glorify them in the same way.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Children
  • May
  • Sense

• Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Science

• In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • World
  • Sense
  • Insane

• It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new day. It just makes sense.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Sun
  • Christ
  • Mountain

• I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Education
  • Sense

• I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us.

  

  Bernadette Roberts
  • Desire
  • Missing
  • Sense

• In a certain sense the liberation of slaves is the destruction of property – acquired by descent or by purchase, the same as any other property.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Sense
  • Property
  • Slaves

• A sense of duty imprisons you.

  

  Jenny Holzer
  • Sense
  • Duty
  • Imprison

• We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

  

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell
  • Woman
  • Right
  • Granted

• I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Healthy
  • Punk Rock
  • Sickening

• For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Sense
  • Creature
  • Mechanism