Thomas Carlyle Quotes

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

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• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Money
  • Pain
  • Child

• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Day

• I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Grow

• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Live
  • Past
  • Earth

• The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • America
  • Reality
  • Government

• I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Career
  • Respect

• When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Made
  • Jokes

• There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Door
  • See
  • Key

• Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.

  

  Babyface
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Men
  • Never
  • Mad

• Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

  

  Adam Grant
  • May
  • Successful
  • Prove

• It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Great
  • Training

• I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Morning

• Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Friends
  • Soul
  • Change

• It's always fun to play someone who is a little off. Normal is a little boring.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Boring

• It's very, very important to wash off makeup. Like, really wash it off - I used to be really bad and leave some on when I would go to bed, but it's so important to get it all off.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Makeup

• It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Music
  • Trying

• I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

  

  Meg Tilly
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Life

• The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

  

  Elizabeth Hardwick
  • Power
  • Taken

• I'm more interested in people the way they are than what they've done onscreen before. So I don't worry much about the acting skills or the name, the status. I just think, 'Do I believe this person? Do I like them? Are they interesting, complicated, have the right aura, energy?'

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • People
  • Believe
  • Done

• I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • Book
  • Political
  • Communication

• A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Business
  • Heavenly
  • Encompass