William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.William Makepeace Thackeray
Quotes to Explore
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
Daley Thompson -
One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
Saint Ignatius -
I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
Yitzhak Rabin -
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
Randall Terry -
Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
Larry Wilmore -
There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
Patrick Duffy
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra -
We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
Ralph Steadman -
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo -
For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
Washed Out -
At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
Magnus Scheving -
I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
A. N. Wilson
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
Uta Hagen -
I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.
Beck -
The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
Ed Sheeran -
I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.
Ulrich Beck -
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
T. S. Eliot
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
Laura Dekker -
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
Oriana Fallaci -
We believe we have no territorial problems at all. It is only Japan that believes it has territorial problems with Russia. We are ready to talk about this.
Vladimir Putin -
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
William James -
For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.
William Makepeace Thackeray