Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

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• I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
  • Money
  • Father

• The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Thanks
  • Countries
  • Prophet

• I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Believe
  • Positive
  • Happiness

• I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Earth

• If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • You
  • Light
  • Working

• I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Fashion
  • Rock
  • Dress

• I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Attention

• The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Wealth
  • Taste
  • Product

• I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Weakness
  • Haters

• There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Song
  • Singing

• I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Exercise
  • Matter

• Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Great
  • Sometimes

• As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Carpenter
  • Mentioned

• Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Great
  • Pride

• The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Truth
  • Health
  • Truth Is

• An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Commitment
  • Security

• The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • American
  • Together
  • Dream

• Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Actor

• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Body
  • Better

• But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Pain
  • Choice
  • Sorrow

• The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Better
  • Bad Times