Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The devil has his elect.

Thomas Carlyle

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• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
  • Grandparents

• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Realize
  • How
  • Anymore

• I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

  

  Sally Field
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Fighting

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • People
  • Government
  • Innocent

• I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Inspiration
  • Desires
  • Doubts

• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Way
  • Start
  • Luck

• But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Funny
  • Team
  • Red

• Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Business
  • Kind
  • Successful

• Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Live
  • Yourself
  • Cousin

• Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Desire

• Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers. There are men who can't be bought.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• There are worse things in life than being called a lady.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Life

• I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

  

  Warren G. Harding

• My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky;Contrariwise, my blood runs coldWhen little boys go by.For little boys as little boys,No special hate I carry,But now and then they grow to men,And when they do, they marry.No matter how they tarry,Eventually they marry.And, swine among the pearls,They marry little girls.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Men
  • Heart

• Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
  • Brain

• The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Mind
  • Reality

• Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up
  • Heart
  • May

• I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • God
  • Hope

• I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?

  

  John Wesley
  • Heart
  • Faith
  • Shadow

• When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Devil
  • Sells

• We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.

  

  Jimmy Kimmel
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Air

• The devil has his elect.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Devil
  • Elect