Thomas Carlyle Quotes
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.Thomas Carlyle
Quotes to Explore
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
Ian Hacking -
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Walter Gropius -
The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
Patricia Highsmith -
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
Vic Snyder -
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
Victor Francis Hess
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
Pat Garrett -
The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
Barbara Bush -
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams -
I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
Wendy Kopp -
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
Irina Shayk -
I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
Adam Driver -
The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
Kajol -
I've been around some really good guys from different teams.
Dan Quinn -
Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
Vera Rubin -
I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
Viggo Mortensen
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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
Earl Butz -
Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.
LZ Granderson -
I always wanted to be Olympic champion and do clean programs.
Kim Yuna -
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
Thomas Carlyle