Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.Thomas Carlyle
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
Felix Dennis -
I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
Maeve Binchy -
I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
Laura Dern -
When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
Wangari Maathai -
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
Larry Flynt -
I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
Tammy Duckworth
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
H. L. Mencken -
I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
J. B. Pritzker -
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
Ban Ki-moon -
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson -
I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
Vicki Lawrence -
It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
Karolina Kurkova
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I'm Latin - we start young, honey!
Zoe Saldana -
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.
Walid Jumblatt -
Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
Jacob Hacker -
I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic.
Larry Wilmore -
I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.
Gabriela Sabatini
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
Felix Frankfurter -
I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.
Karan Mahajan -
Slime is the sticky essence of a gastropod’s soul, the medium for everything in its life: locomotion, defense, healing, courting, mating, and egg protection. Nearly one-third of my snail’s daily energy went into slime production. And rather than making a single batch of “all-purpose” slime, my snail had a species-specific recipe for each of these needs and for different parts of its body. It could adjust the ingredients, just as a good cook would, to meet a particular occasion. And in a catastrophic accident in which a snail is squashed, it can release a flood of lifesaving, medicinal mucus packed with antioxidants and regenerative properties.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey -
'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
Victor LaValle -
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
Thomas Carlyle