Thomas Carlyle Quotes
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.Thomas Carlyle
Quotes to Explore
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava -
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
E. L. Doctorow -
I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
Garth Davis -
I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
J. Michael Bishop -
The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
Ted Nelson
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
Edgar Bergen -
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Jack Henry Abbott -
We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.
Vicente Fox -
It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
Naima Adedapo -
I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.
Jaan Tallinn -
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Malcolm Forbes -
I always wanted to make movies.
Daniel Craig -
You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.
Fabrice Muamba -
And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
Uma Thurman -
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.
Dan Chaon -
Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
Natalie Dormer
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Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.
Joe Baca -
I work out really hard, and I stay on my diet all week.
Charlotte McKinney -
If the past is any guide, what has happened this winter could happen again next winter and the winter after that and so on and so on. What we face is a threat to our whole way of life...The case is now surely overwhelming, there will be no solution to our difficulties which does not include some restriction on the power of the unions.
Margaret Thatcher -
People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content - movies, TV production, acquired series, specialty genres, digital distribution of our magazines, sports rights.
Jeffrey Bewkes -
Sometimes reality T.V. can be stressful.
Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips -
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle