Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.Thomas Carlyle
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
Ted Lindsay -
I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
Natasha Richardson -
My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
Mallory Ortberg -
Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
Adam Michnik -
After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
Nancy Grace
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
Yami Gautam -
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban -
The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
Felicity Jones -
What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
E. O. Wilson -
I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
Earl Campbell -
We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
Tammy Duckworth
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If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'
Adam Green -
The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
Tadashi Yanai -
You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.
Karin Slaughter -
The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
Venus Williams -
Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
Najib Razak
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Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
Dav Pilkey -
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
David Seabury -
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle -
For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart.
Audrey Hepburn -
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
Heraclitus -
Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.
Thomas Carlyle