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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• Souls
• Killing
• Stupidity
• Ruin

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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 definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Career
  • Play
  • Rock

• 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

• I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Vision
  • Courage

• You won't often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn't rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over!

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Fall
  • Heels
  • Killer

• You always have to speak good about the projects you do and you have to see the beauty in them. Sometimes you see them and you're happy with things, or maybe the process was nice and you enjoyed it, and you were happy with that. But when everything gathers - you liked the scripts from the very beginning, the directors, your friends - but then you see the result and you like it - it's beautiful.

  

  Miguel Angel Silvestre
  • Sometimes
  • Process
  • Projects

• If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises. If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don't have to run away. You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Problem
  • Suffering
  • Lying

• I'm not saying eating babies should be legal, but when they're so delicious, what's the harm in it? I don't know what tastes better, their innocence or their gooey rib butter.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Baby
  • Taste
  • Ribs

• 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