Thomas Carlyle Quotes
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?
Thomas Carlyle
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The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.
Fareed Zakaria
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
R. L. Stine
Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.
Barack Obama
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
Barack Obama
It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.
Oscar Levant
Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.
Edmund Spenser
His Comoedies will remaine witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum the ways of mankind. Now our present writers reflect so much on particular persons and coxcombeities that twenty yeares hence they will not be understood.
John Aubrey
The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.
Benigno Aquino III
Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the late pope's followers believe he is already there.
Chris Matthews
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; - Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. - You with the unpaid bill, Despair, - You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, - I will pay you in the grave, - Death will listen to your stave.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
C. S. Lewis
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?
Thomas Carlyle
