William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Law
  • Me
  • Rules

• Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Risk
  • Impact
  • Debt

• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Word
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Impossible

• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Danger
  • Terror
  • Effect

• Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Trying
  • Athlete
  • Equality

• The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • End
  • Satan
  • Pledge

• 25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Struggle
  • Impression
  • Ease

• It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Evil

• Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don't really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Things

• You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Horror

• Iran is an anti-Semitic, terrorist government.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Government
  • Terrorist
  • Anti-Semitic

• There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Respect
  • Attention
  • Quality

• The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Defense
  • Propaganda

• When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Human
  • Vanity

• Vanity is often the unseen spur.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Vanity
  • Unseen
  • Spurs