Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Patience

• I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Sit

• I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Fly
  • Sell
  • Acid

• Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Food
  • Consequences

• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Hate
  • Religion
  • Easy

• The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Birth
  • Union
  • African

• I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Movie
  • Superhero
  • Martial Arts

• Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Blood

• I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • World
  • Think
  • See

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact and scale of WikiLeaks. It's a whole different level.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Different
  • Question
  • Doing

• My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Advice

• Thought is just not something objective in our heads. Thought is power – real, objective power. Moreover, the thoughts we create have a life of their own. They have a kind of material reality that affects other people for good or ill – hence our responsibility to chose.

  

  Annie Besant
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• ...like a ship, clean and trim on a dirty sea of pox and camel-dung.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Sea
  • Dirty

• None of us gets through life alone. We all have to look out for each other and lift each other up.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Alone

• Persuasion's flowing well.

  

  Anacreon

• You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Choices

• Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • High
  • Wind
  • Acceptance

• Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • War
  • Achieve

• I think clothing is transformative. When you put something really beautiful on, you feel something. In so many ways, we're always playing a form of dress-up - it's just a grown-up, much chicer version of it. It's nice to be able to be whoever you want to be.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Nice

• Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • King
  • Faculty
  • Priest