Thomas Carlyle Quotes
He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.Thomas Carlyle
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
Kate Moss -
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde -
If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
Olivia Colman -
Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
Natalie Maines -
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
Vera Farmiga -
We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
Eamon de Valera -
Fredo Lampe. Am Rande Der Nacht. For me, name and title evoked those lighted windows from which you cannot tear your gaze. You are convinced that, behind them, somebody whom you have forgotten has been awaiting your return for years, or else that there is no longer anybody there. Only a lamp, left burning in the empty room.
Patrick Modiano -
It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
Eleanor Clift
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We had a blowout on our hands in the third quarter and we never recovered from that.
Phil Jackson -
I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
Abraham Lincoln -
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I want in all cases to do right.
Abraham Lincoln -
True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
John Milton
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
Bono U2 -
Startups think globally so as minister for digital affairs and innovation I do so too and strive to show the entire world how strong French tech is.
Axelle Lemaire -
He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
Thomas Carlyle