Thomas Carlyle Quotes
There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
Quotes to Explore
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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My songs are about who I am.
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I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
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I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.
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There's nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it.
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I must have flowers, always, and always.
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…a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse…. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher.
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One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
