Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
Quotes to Explore
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
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You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
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The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.
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No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
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There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.
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Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
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It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.
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We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
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Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
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The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
