William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Life
  • Education
  • Cost

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Love
  • Really
  • Forests

• If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Find

• No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women

• It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Experience
  • Humanity
  • Scary

• I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.

  

  Matt Damon

• Not having sub-governance would be like anyone who owns USD being able to walk into a Google shareholder meeting and voting without owning Google stock just because Google shares happen to be denominated in USD.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • Stock

• When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Long
  • True
  • Practice

• Once you get depressed, you don't really feel like doing anything. You're kind of discouraged about yourself, and then the weight gain, too, or that makes me more depressed.

  

  Kevin Federline

• A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.

  

  Azim Premji
  • Children
  • Family
  • Girl

• Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

  

  Charles M. Schulz
  • World
  • Today
  • Worry

• My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.

  

  Chief Seattle
  • People
  • Storm

• Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Creativity

• I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

  

  Jeanne Calment

• I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Together
  • Effort

• I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • World
  • Bird
  • Stronger

• The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Real
  • Art
  • Mean

• It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration.

  

  Etienne de La Boetie
  • Train
  • Obedience
  • Tyrants

• Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Eyes
  • Ears
  • Accurate

• Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.

  

  William Styron
  • Fun
  • Moments
  • Sleep

• ...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Tyrants