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

• I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Remember
  • Strong
  • Pain

• Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • First
  • Possible
  • Speaking

• Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Circumstances

• You may think that Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and BigGovernment-dot-com were fighting against an enemy, and the enemy was ACORN, but I do not think that's the case at all. I think the enemy they were fighting against are the media. By not covering the story, not at all ... Breitbart showed that the media is no longer merely biased. They're no longer even ignoring the news. The mainstream media is now in the news suppression business.

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Business
  • Think
  • Government

• 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