Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
Quotes to Explore
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
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Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'
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You can’t be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.
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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.
