He that can work is born to be king of something.


Thomas Carlyle

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If a man is born, he should be born either a king or a fool.
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Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.
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That balance and that ability to be so precise is something that can't be taught. He was born to do ...
ERIC KOSTON
He wants to do everything he can for the varsity program. He wants to make Thomas Jefferson as good ...
DON POWELL
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...
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Well, let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor. . . ...
RONALD REAGAN
It is a sad, sad situation to be in this courtroom in this country hearing a prosecutor saying to a ...
LEX LASRY
At bottom he [Carlyle] was probably fond of them [the Americans], but he was always able to conceal ...
MARK TWAIN
Carlyle! The man with a thousand faces.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thin...
BIBLE
If he is a Rehnquist, that would not be a cause for exultation in my book, but it would not be a cau...
CHUCK SCHUMER
Even if he is more likely to be a Rehnquist than a Thomas, the downside of him being a Thomas outwei...
CHARLES SCHUMER
It is absolutely ludicrous that abortion supporters would accuse a blood relative of Dr. King of hij...
ALVEDA KING
Leg speed is one of those things your either born with or not. But endurance is something that you c...
DON BATES
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
PROVERB
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned
PROVERB
Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
MARK TWAIN
It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot o...
ANNE LAMOTT
Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be conside...
MAXIM GORKY
Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - t...
TOM HIDDLESTON
Nobody is born great,you can only be born to be great
ONIOSUN TEMIDAYO ISAIAH
You either serve at the foot of a king or he serves at your foot. There is one thing that can be cou...
BOBBY W. MILLER
This is something that is entirely up to the King family.
BARBARA GOODMAN
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Th...
THOMAS FULLER
Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of c...
SHAWN AMOS
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE
He did have Paul Thomas Anderson there, ... He said, 'He's here in case I croak.' I said, 'Bob, plea...
LINDSAY LOHAN
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
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when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the lan...
VOLTAIRE
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained ...
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY
To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which...
RANBIR KAPOOR
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER
At Home at the Carlyle
ELAINE STRITCH
At Home at the Carlyle.
ELAINE STRITCH
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
THOMAS MALORY
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
SIR THOMAS MALORY
He who can follow his own will is a king
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Chairman King appears to still be in denial. If Peter King is to tackle this, he needs to gaze into ...
ANTHONY WEINER
Caesar was frightening to be around ... if ever anyone was born to be a king, he was. But they (the ...
BRUNO HELLER
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Tho...
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction th...
LORETTA YOUNG
For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he ...
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The two that jump out to me are Jason Morton's offensive rebounding work and Thomas Sander's offensi...
BOB MCKILLOP
What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?...
TINO SEHGAL
[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been aske...
JAMES A. FROUDE
We put in a lot of work to make this happen. Mrs. Thomas puts in lots of hours of work.
CAITLIN SHIPE
I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thom...
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There is no better way to honor Dr. King than to spend Monday giving back to our communities in his ...
JEANNE SHAHEEN
He's a competitor and has great belief in himself. You can tell that on the mound. He's got that loo...
BILL BRYK
Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if h...
BENJAMIN E. MAYS
Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if h...
BENJAMIN MAYS
I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work ...
CAROLINA KOSTNER
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
Why be a king, when you can be a king-maker.
AHMAD TALAL ASIF
They are a little different from Carlyle. They are a little bigger and they spread the floor more wi...
CHAD CLUVER
This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedde...
JOHN MILTON
Offer a wise man to be the king of the world, he will refuse it because wisdom is already a kingdom ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
A man cannot be born again in a lower world; but can only be born into a Brahman world, before he re...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment...
ROBERT BENCHLEY
Carlyle would never have gotten to the level that it is at today had it not been for this premeditat...
DAN BRIODY
I feel sorry for little babies... When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Contrary to Thomas' carefully cultivated public persona, he is capable of abhorrent behavior in priv...
ANUCHA BROWNE SANDERS
Gable, at a quarter of eight in the morning, is banging on the side of his dressing room. At one min...
GEORGE SIDNEY
He can throw. He can be something special.
DAMON HOLLINS
This is something that they're going to treasure the rest of their lives because not everybody can g...
CHARLIE WILSON
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not so...
JOHN LYDON
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that...
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Reject the religious labels and accept the only label that matters “Born Again
JOHN M SHEEHAN
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
That King of Pop shit. I named him. I named him the King of Pop, Rock and Soul. He changed it just t...
BOB JONES
'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,
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The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing the...
SHARON SALZBERG
No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tool...
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When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has ...
ALLAN ADLER
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
I. M. PEI
Something known can be mastered, something made can be pioneered
NAH
Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy...
LAPO ELKANN
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is...
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ
Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Alva Edison.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
It was like he was the king or something. It was a fun time.
MARILYN GARDNER
If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows. -King Henry ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Then August knew. Thomas didn’t dwell on things. Thomas was strong, and he didn’t know what it w...
KRIS NOEL
The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, li...
ROB REINER
While this is part of his job, he still takes time to do everything that he can before he returns to...
DON MCCLURE
The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see s...
ROXANE GAY
Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
BUDDHA
First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and ...
JAKE JOHNSON
So does nobody care about Ireland?"
"Nobody. Neither King Louis, nor King Billie, nor King Jame...
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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Song is the heroics of speech.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLE
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same...
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The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in th...
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in...
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since a...
THOMAS CARLYLE
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconsciou...
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can ...
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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History is the distillation of rumor.
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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soa...
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest wer...
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All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Div...
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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The heart always sees before than the head can see.
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
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No violent extreme endures.
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What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in...
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