William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?William Makepeace Thackeray
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
H. Rap Brown -
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein -
You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
Aasif Mandvi -
The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
Ted Nugent
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
Gary Oldman -
In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
Jackson Katz -
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman -
It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
Patrick Kane
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
Ace Frehley Kiss -
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
Randall Terry -
Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
Vida Blue -
I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
Rahul Gandhi -
We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
Warren Buffett -
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
Jackie Evancho
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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
Marguerite Young -
How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors...
Daniel O'Connell -
The day Christina comes out of her grave, that's the day he should get parole.
Bob Ross -
I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a compliment, honestly.
Gayle Rankin -
If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.
Larry Wall -
To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
William Makepeace Thackeray