William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
Warren Farrell -
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell -
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
Iris Apfel -
Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
Vanessa Kerry -
I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
Kaley Cuoco -
I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
Sam Brownback -
As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
Caitlyn Jenner -
It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
T.I.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
Ted Cruz -
While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
Earl Butz -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
Imelda Staunton
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I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
John Singleton -
You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
Billy Joel -
For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
Gabrielle Zevin -
I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
Ian Williams Battles -
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
William Makepeace Thackeray