Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Kingdom Of Death

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• I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Regret
  • Questions

• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Death
  • Wife

• They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Physician

• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feet
  • Swimming
  • Bricks

• Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Together
  • Want

• Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Fish
  • Meat

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Person
  • Values
  • Ideological

• So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long

• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Alone

• Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Sea
  • Waves

• La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• Libera fortunae mors est; capit omnia tellusquae genuit; caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.

  

  Lucan

• Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

  

  Margaret Mead

• I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music
  • Marketing

• There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.

  

  Anohni
  • People
  • Life
  • Attention

• If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Nature
  • Garden
  • Flower

• The picture of me as a child is that I was always with a ball - that's why I was so skinny: I would miss dinner. Mum would have to leave me some food in the microwave.

  

  Riyad Mahrez
  • Child
  • Ball
  • Skinny

• The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Silence

• My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Mom
  • Tough
  • Fighter

• The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. - The judge.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Freedom
  • Judge

• Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Silence
  • Empire
  • Kingdom Of Death