Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Book
  • Knowledge
  • Light

• Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Action
  • Effort

• One of the things we're trying to do more of is not just take money from corporate partnerships, but get more involved in the business side for when I retire. So Puma are going to make me an ambassador for life. I have a clothing line coming out. I am investing a lot in housing in Jamaica, buildings for rent.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Money

• He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Profit
  • Villainy

• We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.

  

  John C. Danforth

• Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Wrong
  • Ring
  • Going Down

• Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

  

  Sophocles
  • Money
  • Life is
  • Gain

• I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Peace
  • Fair

• By worrying as little as possible about fame.

  

  Diogenes
  • Fame
  • Possible
  • Worrying

• There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Person
  • Merits
  • Glorify

• If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.

  

  Will Self
  • Seventies
  • Eighty

• Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Admiration
  • Tedious
  • Yourselves

• All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

  

  Sarah Zettel
  • Thinking
  • Wonder
  • Changed

• Life is so good, and it gets better every day.

  

  George Dawson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Better

• Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Nature
  • Suffering

• I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

  

  Ray Romano
  • Family
  • Values
  • Standup

• Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Misery
  • Spokesman
  • Helper