Thomas Carlyle Quotes

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

Thomas Carlyle

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• May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Life
  • Live
  • May

• I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Teaching
  • Without
  • Pity

• 'English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? They are going to say that about any actress from this country!

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Country
  • English
  • Rose

• Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Years
  • Watches
  • Skating

• The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Power
  • Community

• Frankly, sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey. Take a little bite of it, and he will throw his own feces at you.

  

  Jon Corzine
  • Politics
  • Littles
  • Bananas

• I would be lying if I said I cut out all dessert. When Im training, I try to satisfy those cravings with a slightly healthier dessert, like a piece of dark chocolate or whipped cream and strawberries. Those are two of my favorites!

  

  Josie Loren
  • Dark
  • Training
  • Lying

• To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Peace
  • Looks
  • Faces

• The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

  

  William Hurt
  • Done
  • Perfection
  • Theater

• Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Truth
  • Awful
  • Depravity

• Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

  

  William Blake
  • Burning
  • Frame
  • Symmetry

• "You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have to learn.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Attention
  • Poet

• Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Darkness
  • Adopted

• Even with an assignment, I take over, I find a freedom and make the idea my own, and that's where you get the sense that the essays become something very different than the original subject. Assignments are great, though - they test your mettle, your spirit and resilience. All of sudden you drop in, you don't know anything, you're vulnerable and available.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Different
  • Spirit
  • Vulnerable

• Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • Speaking

• He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of themselves use the terms "lonely," "friendless," "of small account." Is not this making humility their base?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Humility
  • Foundation
  • Speaking

• It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Speaking
  • Cultivate
  • Escapes