William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.William Makepeace Thackeray
Quotes to Explore
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
Haile Selassie -
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
A. S. Byatt -
One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
C. K. Williams -
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
Patricia Richardson -
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
Karel Capek
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
Ferdinand Foch -
An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
Zubin Mehta -
Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.
Olivia Newton-John -
I love men who make me laugh.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'
Candace Bushnell -
Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.
Yaya DaCosta
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens -
Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?
Sade Adu -
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
Ignazio Silone -
World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'
Zadie Smith -
A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
Ian Somerhalder -
I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
Eddie Izzard
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A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.
William Osler -
I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, Richard Peck and Kate DiCamillo, who I love.
Jacqueline Woodson -
I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a wedding song. But what's also really cool is songs that no one else would have at their wedding, like an obscure Radiohead song.
Mary Lambert -
It is not a matter of competing with someone else. Essentially, it is accepting our own special abilities as special – and then developing them.
Ben Carson -
The town hall has the spirit of representative democracy, the rally of autocracy.
Bill Kristol -
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray