Edward Hallett Carr Quotes

We view the past, and achieve our understanding of the past, only through the eyes of the present.

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• Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Sleep

• I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Play
  • Learn
  • Singer

• In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Better
  • Year
  • Presidential

• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Band
  • Favorite
  • Jersey

• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Relationships
  • Computers

• We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Small
  • Purpose
  • Door

• The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Death
  • Body
  • Spirit

• The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Writer

• Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Why
  • Want
  • Technology

• I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Professional
  • Same
  • Strength

• I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Writing
  • You
  • Yourself

• A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Preparation

• I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • Night
  • Die

• Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a six-year-old hug my leg after the show and a 60-year-old shake my hand. It's cool to see people connecting with the music across different generations.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Education
  • Face
  • Questions

• Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • World
  • Peace
  • Calm

• I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Running
  • Comfortable
  • Uncomfortable

• Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

  

  James Longstreet
  • War
  • Bad
  • Mistake

• I'd say some of my earliest scent memories are from home - just things that were around my house, and my mom's cooking.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Home
  • House
  • Mom

• I feel like I've had a number of roles in suits, which is hilarious to the people who know me, because it couldn't be further from who I am and what I wear. I think that Aaron Sorkin is, to a certain extent, responsible.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • People
  • Roles
  • Hilarious

• I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • People
  • God
  • Universe

• Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

  

  Quintilian
  • Future
  • Fear
  • Present

• We view the past, and achieve our understanding of the past, only through the eyes of the present.

  

  Edward Hallett Carr
  • Present
  • Achieve