William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
Vicki Lawrence
For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
Victor LaValle
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Jack Horner
The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
Gail O'Grady
My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
Katee Sackhoff
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
Karlie Kloss
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
T-Pain
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
Wayne McGregor
I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
T. J. Miller
Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
Ira Glass
I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.
Ian Rush
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
Kate Atkinson
Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.
Joanne Rowling
Che chi si truova in degno laccio preso,Se ben di sé vede sua donna schiva,Se in tutto aversa al suo desire acceso;Se bene Amor d'ogni mercede il priva,Poscia che 'l tempo e la fatica ha speso;Pur ch'altamente abbia locato il core,Pianger non de', se ben languisce e muore.
Ludovico Ariosto
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
Kofi Annan
She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
William Hazlitt
A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.
William Makepeace Thackeray
