Thomas Carlyle Quotes

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Jungles
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• Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • For Her
  • Invisible

• Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Start

• The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Picnic

• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Good
  • Story
  • Elements

• It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Good
  • America
  • Me

• I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Foundation

• When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Music
  • Punk
  • Pure

• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rights

• It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • True
  • Me

• Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Thinking
  • Cooking
  • Relaxing

• I've had every known chemical-cocaine, booze-and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • World

• We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone - A higher charm than modern culture won, With all the wealth of metaphysic lore, Gifted to analyze, dissect explore.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Explore

• Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

  

  John Adams
  • Free
  • Catholic

• Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Earth
  • Die
  • Sea

• I'm not a person who would get up at 5 A.M. to write, but I could sacrifice my Friday night and just order in dinner, sit at home and get into it.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Up
  • Home
  • Night

• I've never had a problem with age; my feelings and emotions are still like those of a young woman. Thank God, I can still be surprised and excited, and I can still dream. I think that's something no one should stop doing, because it's what keeps you young!

  

  Maria Conchita Alonso
  • God
  • Age
  • Dream

• Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
  • Impossible
  • Land
  • Intense

• The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Book

• Simplify, simplify.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Desert

• At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

  

  James Mooney

• A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Desert
  • Jungles
  • Perfects