Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Car

• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Communicate

• We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Come

• I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Weird

• I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Time
  • Style
  • Same

• Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  

  Barack Obama
  • You
  • Stop
  • Over

• Give peace a chance.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Chance
  • Give

• I started doing improv my sophomore year.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Doing
  • Year
  • Improv

• When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Career
  • Know
  • Respect

• But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Friends

• The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Despair
  • Deeds
  • Poison

• 'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Women
  • Intuition

• I find it a sufficient embarrassment that our Establishment Clause jurisprudence regarding holiday displays has come to 'requiree scrutiny more commonly associated with interior decorators than with the judiciary'. But interior decorating is a rock hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Science
  • Rock
  • Psychology

• Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelfThan that I may not disappoint myself,That in my action I may soar as highAs I can now discern with this clear eye.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Great
  • God
  • May

• Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • See
  • Causality

• I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

  

  Mark Valley

• Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

  

  Jim Backus
  • Success
  • Wife

• Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....

  

  Robert Frost
  • Art
  • Business
  • Strong

• They could never put me in a slot. They couldn't say Glen was 'country,' 'pop' or 'rock.' I'm crock, OK? A cross between country and rock. Call me crock.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Country
  • Rock

• The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Stop

• The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Find
  • Secrets
  • Stretched

• Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Science
  • Existence
  • Employing