Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Biography is the only true history.

Thomas Carlyle

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• You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Want
  • Sick

• I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

  

  Kajol
  • People
  • Want
  • Film

• Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Live
  • Man

• At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Man
  • Food
  • Best

• Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Computer

• Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Human

• We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Earth
  • Heal
  • Sufficient

• I just don't let that mentality be a part of my world.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • World
  • Mentality

• I was not convinced with the outcome. One day off helped. I was rejuvenated. We know that from now on we cannot lose.

  

  Daisuke Matsuzaka
  • Convinced
  • Cannot

• I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Actor
  • Autobiography
  • Biography

• When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Heart
  • Heaven
  • Sorrow

• Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

  

  Eric Bentley
  • Geography
  • Biography
  • Maps

• I think Karl Benson is really taking care of his guys, and I think there has to be more fairness in the way this is done.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • I Think
  • Fairness
  • Taking Care

• Biography is the only true history.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Biography
  • True History