Thomas Carlyle Quotes
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.Thomas Carlyle
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Oscar Hammerstein -
The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.
Constance Jablonski -
State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.
Edward B. Rust, Jr. -
I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.
Jose Rizal -
You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.
Nick Brandt -
If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.
Eve Ensler
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We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
Napoleon Hill -
"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.
Mark Steyn -
In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.
William Shakespeare -
Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
John Milton -
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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And all I know is, you've got to give me everything. Nothing less 'cause, you know I give you all of me.
Gwen Stefani No Doubt -
The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.
Kathy Bates -
One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
She looked like a summer garden.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
Thomas Carlyle