Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes to Explore
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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.
Anand Giridharadas
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I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
Little Richard
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When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.
Ann Wagner
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We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
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I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.
Elena Kagan
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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.
Abraham Lincoln
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
Heraclitus
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Lucky to have been where I have been
Jason Mraz
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When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a few individuals have the strength and the power to walk away from the restrictions of the world and to stand fearlessly beyond it, eventually, in some distant millennium, all mankind will also come to that same liberation.
Stuart Wilde
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All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.
Ezra Stiles
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
Thomas Carlyle