Thomas Carlyle Quotes

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

Thomas Carlyle

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• It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Law
  • Me
  • Seems

• You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Why
  • Dark
  • Comfort

• I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Breakfast

• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Freedom
  • Explore
  • Tradition

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • You
  • See

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Time
  • Hell
  • Paradise

• No man ever listened himself out of a job.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Job
  • Man
  • Out

• Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Strategy
  • Incentives

• Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Humanity

• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Think

• One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled 'fog'...The motorist replies: 'What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog.'

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men

• It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed; ... because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful.

  

  William Whewell
  • Real
  • Science
  • Accepting

• When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

  

  Jerry Dammers
  • Up
  • School

• I don't think people realize how much I love basketball. A lot of people think because of this idiotic comment I made that I love baseball and don't like basketball. Baseball came first because if you grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, that was the No. 1 thing. But if you have more than one kid, you love them both.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • People
  • Up
  • Baseball

• I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

  

  William McDonough
  • People
  • World
  • Design

• It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Sick
  • Medicine

• For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Men
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity