Thomas Carlyle Quotes

To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

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• Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Game
  • Sweet
  • Friendship

• I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • Dying
  • Start

• Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • America
  • Justice

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Care
  • Down

• When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • You
  • Film
  • Audience

• Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Crowded

• Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Mind
  • Meditation

• There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Man
  • Know
  • Old

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Movie
  • Game
  • Team

• I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Different
  • Action
  • Fighting

• They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Today
  • You
  • Teach

• Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Yourself

• I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Love
  • Working
  • Friday

• I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Mean
  • Old
  • Masters

• I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Life
  • War
  • Politics

• I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

  

  Nia Long
  • Feeling
  • Serious

• Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted - the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation's profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I'm sad to say the Clinton administration didn't turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they're the worst administration we've ever had, and I used to be a Republican.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Environment
  • Forget
  • Worst

• Wir Deutsche fürchten Gott, aber sonst nichts in der Welt - und die Gottesfurcht ist es schon, die uns den Frieden lieben und pflegen lässt.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Die

• I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Man
  • Best
  • Railroad

• To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Environment
  • Talent
  • Fortune