Thomas Carlyle Quotes

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Thomas Carlyle

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• My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Never
  • Humble

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Dog
  • Judge

• I will know him by his eyes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Know
  • Eyes
  • Will

• I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

  

  Kat Graham
  • World
  • Different
  • Own

• I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Money
  • Want
  • Lying

• Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Men
  • Emotion
  • Run

• Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Better
  • Results
  • Meditation

• I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Sad

• ' Don't write, Ralph. You'll bring shame on your family. ' - Hunter S. Thompson -

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Family

• There is, in the human Breast, a social Affection, which extends to our whole Species.

  

  John Adams

• All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • People
  • Men
  • Interesting

• It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Art
  • Words

• I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Life
  • Value
  • Impact

• I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Life
  • Acting
  • My Life

• I think I have an inherent modest level of stress, but I'm only super-aware of it when it goes away, when I'm on holiday and I think, 'Oh this feels pretty good.'

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Stress

• There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Up
  • Business

• Mom would say, 'Get out of the house,' and we would just go. We had all sorts of large swings and flying foxes and various death traps throughout the forest that we'd try and do our best to hurt ourselves on. It was a great childhood in terms of being creative, I think.

  

  Luke Hemsworth
  • Great
  • House
  • Death

• When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Life
  • Intelligent
  • Behavior