Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

Thomas Carlyle

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Art
  • Help

• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Light
  • Spirit

• Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Humanity

• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Small
  • Airplane
  • Village

• Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Place
  • Need

• When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Children
  • Family
  • Man

• At least I can say that I'm honest.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Say
  • Honest
  • I Can

• Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

  

  Halston
  • Important
  • Business
  • Right

• I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Business
  • Democrat
  • Progressive

• Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Power
  • Recovery

• The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

  

  Jack Vance

• I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.

  

  George Clooney
  • Certain
  • Morality
  • Debt

• One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Parents
  • Vision

• Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • Space
  • Friend

• Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Friend
  • Interest

• The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

  

  Renee Olstead
  • Friend
  • Yourself
  • Ingredients

• Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Earth
  • Friend
  • Sparrow