William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
Quotes to Explore
-
It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
-
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
-
It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
-
This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
-
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
-
I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
-
I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
-
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
-
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
-
I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
-
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
-
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
-
Events are not a matter of chance.
-
Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
-
It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit Bitcoin.
-
As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.
-
There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
-
I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
-
Despite the litany of the sorrows of the city, we must believe in the ability of man to respond to the problems of his environment.
-
There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.
-
Pure sensism leads inevitably to universal doubt; if reality is in the end reducible to sensible appearance, then, since this is in a state of perpetual flux and self-contradiction, no kind of certitude will any longer be possible. Truth is necessary and immutable; but in the sensible order nothing necessary or immutable is to be found; therefore sensible things will never yield us any truth.
-
When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.
-
We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
