Thomas Carlyle Quotes
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.Thomas Carlyle
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
Edmund White -
Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
Iain Duncan Smith -
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden -
Mientras creemos tener algún valor, nos hacemos daño.
Antonio Porchia -
Every enlargement that has taken place within the European Union has made both the existing and the new member states stronger and more prosperous, ... I'm in absolutely no doubt that the benefits will follow from this enlargement and bring a strong secular state which happens to have a Muslim majority into the European Union.
Jack Straw -
No one has ever drowned in sweat.
Lou Holtz
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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
T. S. Eliot -
You are no longer paid just for the hours that you put in, but for what you put into those hours.
Brian Tracy -
Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.
Dalai Lama -
The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.
Muhammad Ali -
Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen -
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
William Shakespeare
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Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. What is there to be or do? What's become of me or you? Are we kind or are we true? Sitting two and two, boys, waiting for the end.
William Empson -
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.
John Calvin -
The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.
Charles Webster Hawthorne -
When we drink coffee, our tongue gets painted. As long as it stays painted, it remains tasty!
Ernesto Illy -
I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived...
Karen Maitland -
At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.
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