Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Learn
  • Understand

• My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Country
  • Father
  • Strong

• For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Possible
  • Position

• If we go to free agency without a CBA, I would say very few teams are going to be in play and be active. If you do have a CBA, there are going to be a lot of teams out there competing for players.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Free
  • Team
  • Rule

• Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Universe
  • Brain
  • Humans

• Truthfulness is the real mark of integrity.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Real
  • Integrity
  • Mark

• The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • Community
  • Progress

• The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Demand
  • Digital
  • Textbooks

• You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.

  

  George Clooney
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Made

• This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that God will come among the people. The silence deepens as we feel ourselves drawn beautifully to God and each other. Our hearts and souls burst with thanksgiving-a thanksgiving best expressed by silence. Silence growing from awe is the natural human response to hints of the Divine.

  

  J. Brent Bill
  • Worship
  • Absence
  • Noise

• What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.

  

  William of Occam
  • Assumption
  • Fewer

• If we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Fate
  • Doomed

• Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.

  

  Bob Noorda
  • Design
  • Public
  • Bore

• Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

  

  Nell Irvin Painter
  • Satisfying
  • Absorbing

• I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Friendship
  • Faults

• Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • People
  • Yes
  • No

• I think you have to take the man and say to yourself, Donald Trump is someone who wants to occupy the Oval Office, where Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and people who were our president, and I don't think it's just a woman's issue. I think it's an issue that should be of concern to all Americans.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Donald Trump
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Occupy

• Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Source
  • Faults
  • Egotism