Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Sports
  • Dramas
  • Newscasts

• Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff?

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Movie
  • Events
  • Cost

• America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

  

  will.i.am
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Breathing

• I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Knowing

• The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Kill
  • Crash
  • Solar System

• The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.

  

  Anton Newcombe
  • Road
  • Animals
  • Dumb

• I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.

  

  Amy B. Harris
  • Kids
  • Gay
  • Accepted

• I nodded absently as I made a note of the pub. The Rising Sun drinking establishment exists right on the fringes of the demi-monde – not being nearly as antique or mysterious as it pretends to be.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Establishment
  • Note
  • Pretends

• I drove myself to the Emergency Room. That's a nice relaxing drive. "Noooo, after you. Merge-everybody merge."

  

  Brian Regan
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Comedy

• The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

  

  George Takei
  • History
  • Equality
  • More

• The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Artist
  • Moment

• The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Health

• Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Evil
  • Brother
  • Four

• Thomas Edison method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Chance
  • Sorry
  • Miracle

• I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Nightmare

• There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Money
  • Power
  • Rest

• Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Melancholy

• A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Man
  • Follow
  • Paths

• Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Great Men
  • Creators
  • Modelers