Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

Thomas Carlyle

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• One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Country
  • Greatest
  • Grit

• I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Wish
  • Paint
  • I Wish

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• Women drive box office.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Office
  • Box

• There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Animal
  • Dog

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• They say women and music should never be dated.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Never

• I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Doing
  • Jump
  • Comfort

• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• I fed my ego, but not my soul.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Soul
  • Ego
  • My Soul

• Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Risks
  • Oil

• I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • I Can

• I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Job

• My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Want
  • Wife
  • Rest

• Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Life
  • Father
  • Death

• The world is a pile of grunge.

  

  Jo Stafford
  • World
  • Grunge

• I didn't know anything about the fashion industry until I met the stylist Simon Foxton on a Tube. I was 16, on my way to Kingsway College, and then my whole world opened up. Before that, like in every African family, you are meant to be a lawyer.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Up
  • World
  • Family

• I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Moments

• Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Great
  • Business
  • Faith

• Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Faith
  • Hero
  • Loyalty