Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Thomas Carlyle

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• It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Control
  • Car

• The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Different
  • Changes
  • Looking

• Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

  

  Queen Christina
  • More
  • Fools
  • Wicked

• I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Work
  • She
  • Movie

• After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Be Happy

• It should not be the government running the economy.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Running
  • Government
  • Should

• There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Enough
  • Look
  • Stand

• I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Game

• Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Work

• Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like 'aaaaa.... beeeee.... ceeee.' She's thinking you're from fuckin' Europe or somethin: 'OH GOD, WHERE'D YOU LEARN THAT, OHHH,' and you're going 'A, B, C, D, E, F, G'.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Alphabet

• The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

  

  Larry Wall

• If you wanna see the future, Go stare into a cloud.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Future

• The proletariat must seize state power in order to destroy the existing bourgeois state apparatus and, in a first phase, replace it with a quite different, proletarian, state apparatus, then in later phases set in motion a radical process, that of the destruction of the state.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • Different
  • Power

• They pronounce absurdly who thus speak, as the Pythagoreans assert: for at the same time they make the infinite to be essence, and distribute it into parts.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Speak
  • Essence

• And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as being prior to it or more excellent... So that from this we may perceive the causes not only of life in general... but also of longer or shorter life, of sleeping and waking, of skill, of strength and so forth.

  

  William Harvey
  • Life
  • Science
  • Sleep

• O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Heaven
  • Consider
  • Ghost

• Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • People
  • Situation
  • Stronger

• Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Family
  • Learning

• Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Heaven
  • Adversity
  • Diamond