Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Family
  • Surviving

• I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Never
  • See
  • Generation

• He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Help
  • Save
  • Consent

• When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Quarterbacks are always ready.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Always
  • Ready

• Before taking final leave of me, my instructor inquired concerning my physical strength, and I was able to inform him that I hadn't any.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Strength
  • Leave
  • Instructor

• The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Secret

• Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Amazing
  • Kill
  • Rage

• You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Change
  • Point
  • Realize

• There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • World
  • Country
  • School

• A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions.

  

  Frederick M. Vinson
  • Problem
  • Faces
  • Solutions

• It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Great
  • Humble
  • Be Humble

• I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Fiction

• Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  

  Tony Dorsett
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Ability

• I've worked hard and I deserve everything I have. I never thought I'd have so much money. I just wanted to be financially stable and it embarrasses me and I don't feel comfortable talking or thinking about it. I don't know exactly how much I have but I don't buy much.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Feels

• Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

  

  Richard Steele
  • Writes
  • Seldom

• Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pain

• Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Deserve
  • Seldom
  • Rebelling