Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Stupidity
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• I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • World
  • Death
  • Interesting

• I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Never

• At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hurt

• I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Like
  • Audience
  • Movies

• Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Recycling

• Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Career
  • Early

• I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Myself

• If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Goals

• When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • Like
  • Military

• You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

  

  Ed Harris
  • City
  • Day
  • Sleep

• I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Always
  • Never
  • Born

• I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Fall
  • Weight
  • Sitting

• The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.

  

  Johann Heinrich Lambert
  • Happy
  • Perfect

• By now you've heard the constant right wing attacks on the elite media and the liberal elite, who may or may not be part of Washington elite, a subset of the East Coast elite, which is overtly influenced by the Hollywood elite. So, basically, unless you're a shit-kicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists.

  

  Bill Maher
  • May

• We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Break
  • Promises

• Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • Consequences

• What is the strongest cure?--Victory.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Victory
  • Cure

• Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Families

• More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.

  

  William Wulf
  • Reason
  • Computer
  • Stupidity

• The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Rule
  • Souls
  • Killing