Thomas Carlyle Quotes
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.Thomas Carlyle
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin Coolidge -
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
Eben Alexander -
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Yogi Berra -
All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
Tamara Tunie -
I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
Foster Friess -
Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
Randy Houser -
Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I like spending time with my husband.
Lara Stone -
I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
Felice Picano -
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
Walter Lippmann -
The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.
Sam Harris
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I would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems. Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
Tea Obreht -
My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.
Katee Sackhoff -
Kids, kids. I'm not going to die. That only happens to bad people.
Dan Castellaneta -
To fight like we fought the majority of the game and then for that to happen to us with 4.9 seconds on the clock is just devastating.
Allen Iverson -
Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.
Leon Trotsky
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We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.
David Hawkins -
That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
Nassau William Senior -
You don't have to compromise to be recognized.
Wintley Phipps -
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.
David C. Stark -
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
Thomas Carlyle