Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Best
  • Mistake
  • Teacher

• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Talk
  • Meetings
  • Fast

• The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.

  

  Imelda May
  • American
  • You
  • Irish

• Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Facts
  • Numbers
  • Belong

• February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Day
  • February
  • Are

• I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Career
  • Beginning

• The Bible … does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by a man or woman living in the first century.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Single
  • Bible

• Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Happy
  • Wish
  • Air

• Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Important
  • Nice

• No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

  

  James Madison
  • Long

• No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Time
  • Long
  • Chocolate

• If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.

  

  Danny DeVito
  • Life
  • Important
  • Kids

• If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• I still believe that a plant-based diet has tremendous health benefits, but I have incorporated more animal protein into my diet. I found that my body personally got to a point where I needed something more.

  

  Bob Harper
  • Believe
  • Health
  • Animal

• In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!

  

  Kenny Chesney
  • Time

• Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.

  

  John Abizaid

• Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Time
  • Partner

• It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Nature
  • Poverty
  • Humans

• I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.

  

  Annabel Pitcher
  • God
  • Watching
  • Spied

• There is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance. . . . "Look to God and live." This is the wonderful promise given so often in the scriptures. . . . Our capacity to see and comprehend is increased only in proportion to our willingness to look. God becomes more approachable as we look to him.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • God
  • Live
  • Promise

• We must travel in the direction of our fear.

  

  John Berryman
  • Fear
  • Travel

• We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Help
  • Step

• The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Bible
  • Letters
  • Soul Of Man