Thomas Carlyle Quotes

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

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• Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • City
  • Air
  • Sun

• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Another

• I need to meet people to be able to write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • People
  • Need
  • Meet

• I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Dad
  • Thought

• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Common
  • Two
  • Common Sense

• How can you think and hit at the same time?

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Time
  • Think
  • Same

• I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Moments
  • Evolution
  • Image

• Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • You

• The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Freedom
  • Support
  • Violence

• The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • Great
  • Love
  • Feel

• Every lover is a soldier.

  

  Ovid
  • Soldier
  • Lover
  • Every

• Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Real
  • Society

• I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Democracy

• The Smethwick Conservatives can have the satisfaction of having topped the poll, and of having sent here as their Member one who, until a further General Election restores him to oblivion, will serve his term here as a Parliamentary leper

  

  Harold Wilson

• Those Fear and Loathing drawings were only possible for me because of the America's Cup six months earlier, which injected the the drawings with the eerie sense of being there to record the sensations. It was a regurgitation, a psycho-artistic vomit - a creative, cathartic cleansing of my inner being.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • America
  • Fear

• If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Water

• I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Age

• A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

  

  Euripides
  • House
  • Wife
  • Wise Man

• People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Control

• When I read in US Weekly the other day that she was fifty-nine, ... I was like, 'whoa, dude, no way she's old enough to be my mother.' Being with somebody that old is like committing incest, only you're not related.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • She
  • Mother
  • Somebody

• All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Work
  • Men
  • Eye