William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
Quotes to Explore
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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My goal is to always be improving my skills.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.
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Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
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A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
