Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Thomas Carlyle

• Hope
• Change
• Thoughts
• Force

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Nothing
  • Skill

• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Today
  • Man

• Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Say

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Know

• I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Good
  • Me
  • Drink

• Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Sports

• The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Family
  • May
  • Humanity

• In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Politics

• Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Movie

• Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Vary

• I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Want
  • Forever

• In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Life
  • Love
  • Art

• I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works. I mean, a lot of the kids I know are really politically involved. They really care about politics. I think we're going to have an incredible impact on how politics end up shaking this country.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Hands
  • Hell

• To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Study

• Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Head
  • Climb
  • Shaved

• Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Thoughts