Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • World
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• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  

  Vera Rubin
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• I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Up
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• I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Year
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• There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Always
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• Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feet

• You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Character
  • You
  • Either

• My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
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• The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Think
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• Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Family
  • Future
  • Freedom

• Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • World
  • Kids
  • War

• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Life
  • God
  • Kindness

• To convince any man against his will is hard, but to please him against his will is justly pronounced by Dryden to be above the reach of human abilities.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson... It is appalling that these ignorant and irresponsible men should be cutting Asia Minor to bits as if they were dividing a cake...

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Men
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• A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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• The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the kick.

  

  Jack London
  • Couple

• Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.

  

  Imre Lakatos

• The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.

  

  Livy
  • Great
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  • Suffering

• I'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Up

• Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should answer the question..... The master settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky. By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Question
  • Universe
  • Imagine

• Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • World
  • Space
  • Universe

• Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Law
  • Universe
  • God Almighty