Thomas Carlyle Quotes

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

Thomas Carlyle

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• In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Want
  • Stress
  • motivation

• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Mother
  • Legal

• Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Music
  • Meditation

• Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • House
  • New York
  • Living

• Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • May
  • Day

• I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• There's no wrong way to experience a film.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Film

• In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

  

  Carl Rogers
  • May
  • Change
  • Relationship

• I haven't done an international film for a long time.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Fate

• I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • True

• In chess, we say that the player with the initiative is obliged to attack, otherwise the initiative will be lost and the counterattack will likely be decisive.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Lost
  • Player
  • Chess

• Niggas die everyday, all ova bullshitDope money, dice games, ordinary hood shitCould this be cuz of Hip Hop musicOr did the ones with the good sense not use it?

  

  T.I.
  • Good
  • Money
  • Die

• It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Money
  • Fool

• Oh, God! it is a fearful thingTo see the human soul take wingIn any shape, in any mood.

  

  Lord Byron
  • God
  • Soul
  • Mood

• I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something.

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
  • Song
  • Question
  • Beginning

• Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.

  

  Bonnie Wright
  • Important

• The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Leader
  • Unity
  • Principles

• Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

  

  Archimedes
  • Distance

• I love Jughead. I love his one-step-removed perspective on everything in Riverdale. And I love the fact that he wears that stupid hat.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Stupid
  • Perspective

• I didn't argue that the war in Vietnam was immoral; it was merely stupid and a horrendous waste of time, money, and lives based on a flawed premise.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Time
  • Money
  • War

• The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain, and sobbing with pain, i laugh.Because I know now. I know the answer. I know the truth. Oh,dead man, you are dead wrong, I tell him.Can't you see? The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I [do not. I do not.]

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • World
  • Stupid
  • Brutal

• A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Stupid
  • Dialect
  • Pedant