Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.Thomas Carlyle
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
Victoria Justice -
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
Barbra Streisand -
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy
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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 -
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 -
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 -
But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
Obie Trice -
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
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
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
Warren Farrell -
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 -
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 -
I have no kicks at all The fact is I'm pretty happy about the whole thing...I enjoy this country. I like the parks and the highways and the good schools and everything that this Government does.
Carole Lombard -
The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
Ai Weiwei
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Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
Ludwig Quidde -
I will play on this blessed earth until I die.
Ada Limon -
I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
Barack Obama -
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle