Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
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My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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No study is possible on the battlefield.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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Up to a certain time I was cutting into things. Then I realized that the thing I was cutting was the cut. Rather than cut into the material, I now use the material as the cut in space.
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A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.
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It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
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Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.
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You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat waiters and shop assistants, especially when you are one.
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When people say what is 'Gone With the Wind' about, they say it's a love story between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. But Mammy is almost a third party.
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I think the top leadership challenge issue in our world today is how to deal with the continuing, growing population in the world and all the resource demands it places on the world and burgeoning populations in Africa and Asia that lack the resources to have a healthy, happy life.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
