Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Historical science is being left in the dust.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Being
  • Dust

• Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Kids
  • Reality

• Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Passion
  • Positive

• There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Gods
  • Dust

• Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • Controversy
  • Flats

• Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Dust
  • Ashes
  • Amen

• When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Live
  • Color
  • Missing

• There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Book
  • Feeling

• Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Life
  • Music
  • Everyday

• Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Enough

• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Dust
  • Minute
  • Assimilated

• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Suffering

• ... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Light
  • Joy
  • Everyday

• Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Fall
  • Conflict
  • Controversy

• You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Advantage

• A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Good
  • Business
  • Truth

• Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Language
  • Truths
  • Falsehood

• When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Integrity
  • Reputation

• But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise at the resurrection.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Death
  • Dust
  • Resurrection

• Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Pompous
  • Mr. Collins
  • Narrow-minded

• Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

  

  Bernard Lonergan
  • Process
  • Achievement
  • Life is

• When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Feels
  • Streets
  • Walks

• I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Church
  • Gay
  • Attitude

• The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Dust
  • Falsehood
  • Controversy