Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

Thomas Carlyle

• Change
• Democracy
• Blessed

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Women
  • Best
  • Path

• Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Arts
  • Awards

• I would love to be a role model.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Model
  • Role Model

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Myself
  • Couple
  • Movies

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Style

• The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • Good
  • You
  • Appreciate

• It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • True
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Friends
  • Existence
  • Second

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

  

  Ted Williams
  • People
  • Hope
  • Guy

• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Money
  • Think
  • Debt

• How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Need
  • Act
  • Constitution

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Always
  • Rules
  • Now

• I care about writing music and playing my music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Care

• Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

  

  Levon Helm

• I kept trying, proposing, pushing... If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Done

• Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

  

  Lee H. Hamilton
  • Democracy

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Negative

• Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Blessed