Thomas Carlyle Quotes

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • President
  • Battle
  • Syria

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Power

• Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Force
  • Individualism

• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
  • Real
  • Know

• Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Human
  • Human Life

• What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

  

  Dale Dougherty
  • People
  • Imagine
  • Computers

• It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Great
  • Honor
  • Gratitude

• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Kind
  • Failure
  • Athlete

• I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Love
  • Born
  • For Her

• I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Shopping
  • Early
  • Thrift

• He that alone would wise and mighty be, Commands that others love as well as he. Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?- He can add wings when he commands to fly. Nor should we be with this command dismay'd; He that examples gives will give his aid: For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall, His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • May
  • High
  • Alone

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  Kurt Schwitters

• The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Force

• Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.

  

  Bernice L. McFadden
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Choose

• Comedy deals with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

  

  Chris Bliss
  • God
  • Soul
  • Comedy

• We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?"

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Mean
  • Talking
  • Philosopher

• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Soul
  • Force
  • Chain