Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Painting
  • Drawing

• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Important
  • Responsibility

• Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Things
  • Names
  • Essence

• 'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Up
  • Why
  • Dark

• 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
  • Job
  • American
  • Age

• 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
  • God
  • Men
  • Mother

• When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.

  

  Ann Wagner
  • Life
  • Asks
  • Governor

• We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • High
  • Girl
  • Teach

• 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
  • Time
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• 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

• 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
  • Bones
  • Spot
  • Tread

• The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Awake
  • Common World
  • Private Worlds

• When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Hours

• Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • War
  • Adversity
  • Soldiers

• Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Mankind
  • Causes
  • Foundation

• Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Mankind
  • Wiser
  • Great Men