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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• Neither. I think of myself as a human being.

  

  Bruce Lee

• It was pretty clear that I was a funny guy, just as a guy.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Guy
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• You can act, or you can't. I'm sure a lot of people who are serious about acting would disagree, but I'm not really worried about them.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Serious

• Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia, from her home on the Eastern Shore to our little Appalachian coal town to marry my daddy, Ernest Smith, whose family had lived in these mountains for generations.

  

  Lee Smith
  • Family
  • Home
  • Mother

• Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Teacher

• It's a balance - sometimes you have to concentrate on your home life, and sometimes you have to concentrate on your work life.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

  

  Albert Shanker
  • Education
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!"

  

  Craig Seymour
  • Body
  • Childhood
  • Write

• 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
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  • Men
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