Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Life
  • Always
  • Angels

• As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Time

• You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Like

• In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • True
  • Improvement

• Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Helping

• The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Rational

• When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'

  

  Michelle Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
  • Movie
  • Fruition
  • The Mamas & the Papas

• Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

  

  Sean Connery
  • True
  • Right
  • Mankind

• The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Nature
  • Woman
  • Weakness

• The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Successful
  • Determination
  • Accepting

• I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

  

  Michael Palin
  • Religious
  • Problems
  • Leaders

• What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Experiment
  • Investigation

• Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Newspapers
  • Histories