Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
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Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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As NFL players, we have such a platform to spread the Word of God. And that is an area I don't mind speaking out on at all. As far as talking about my football skills, however, I will let my abilities and actions speak for themselves.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.
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Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.
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At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.
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He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
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Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.
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The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
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Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
