Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

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• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Law

• I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Team
  • Problem

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Find
  • Donald
  • Rumsfeld

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Small
  • Goal
  • Movies

• When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Water
  • Speak
  • Paris

• Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Love
  • Science
  • Literature

• But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Working

• Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Cruelty
  • Contagious

• Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man.

  

  Malcolm X

• The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women

• Ich überhaupt vielseitigkeit nicht recht mag, oder eigentlich nicht recht daran glaube. Was eigenthümlich, und schön, und groß sein soll, das muß einseitig sein.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn

• Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true. (tr. Athen. 1912, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • True
  • Comedy

• It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black, so I'm supposed to think a certain way? I'm supposed to have certain opinions? I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • People
  • Black

• How averse human beings were ever to admit ignorance!

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Ignorance

• And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side, the pleasure, the privilege is mine.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Die
  • Truck

• A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Men
  • Mind
  • May

• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  

  Jack Paar
  • God
  • Mind
  • Bad

• But toms will till. I know he well.

  

  James Joyce

• Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

  

  Bede Jarrett
  • Speak
  • Sorrow
  • Grieving

• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Truth
  • Die
  • Realized