William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Real
  • Construction
  • Real estate

• I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Life
  • Real
  • Training

• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality

• Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!

  

  Karen Handel
  • Real
  • Fan
  • Denver

• When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Think

• In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Sports
  • Audience

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Stars

• Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • World
  • Reality

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Real
  • Game

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Military

• What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the genre of reality like it's television from the devil, and that's something that I don't like because I think everybody should watch what they like. It's a free world. It's a form of democracy. If you like it, watch. If you don't like it, don't watch.

  

  John de Mol, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Free

• There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

  

  Jon Voight
  • Country
  • Real
  • War

• People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Football
  • Thought

• When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Fighting

• It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Bitter