Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

Thomas Carlyle

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• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Past
  • Yourself
  • Forgiveness

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.

  

  Omri Katz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Book
  • Myself

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Way
  • You
  • Know

• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Appearance

• I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Want
  • Inspired
  • Played

• In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Myself
  • Waiting
  • Weird

• To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Ideas
  • Moral
  • Aesthetic

• Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Crime
  • Movement

• I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Business
  • Team
  • Sports

• I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Important
  • American
  • Community

• Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Free

• Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Heaven

• Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

  

  Linda Cardellini
  • People
  • Catholic

• There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.

  

  Andrew Forrest
  • People
  • Travel

• I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Ocean
  • Remind
  • Blossom

• I work 90 hours a week. I work 5 to 9, it's not 9 to 5.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Work

• I like Donald Trump; he's been good to me. He supported me at rough times when I was being attacked by others.

  

  Peter T. King
  • Good
  • Trump

• The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Persians