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

• 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 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

• As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Live
  • Book
  • Bike

• Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

  

  Jim Rohn
  • Success
  • Simple

• Even though many of us are working very hard at it, we rarely, if ever, experience the joy and peace that are promised in the Bible. So what’s the problem? Perhaps we are still holding the reins of our lives too tightly, afraid to surrender ourselves to God’s Spirit.

  

  Ann Spangler
  • Joy
  • Bible
  • Promised

• Every free day, every weekend, I am in a recording session. I'm very lucky to have such supportive people around me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • Free
  • Day

• When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Life
  • School
  • Education

• Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Mind
  • Metaphor
  • Integration

• 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