Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
Quotes to Explore
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.
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I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.
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With social media, with Instagram and selfies and all these apps that are trying to make you look perfect... it's hard for girls to grow up nowadays with all that stuff.
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People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.
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Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.
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See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.
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Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all
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At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.
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Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.
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The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
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Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.
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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
