William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • You

• Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Better
  • Playing
  • Getting

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

• The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • You
  • Stop
  • Day

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Good
  • Important
  • Home

• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Night
  • Single
  • Myself

• I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Work
  • Done
  • English

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Formula One

• There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Up
  • Career
  • Man

• I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Great
  • Direction
  • Eating

• We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• The best thing about being from Britain is that it's a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn't imagine coming from anywhere else.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Best
  • Creativity
  • Cultures

• Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

  

  Bob Keeshan
  • Children
  • School
  • High

• Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.

  

  David Hackworth

• In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • People
  • Life
  • Future

• And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • World
  • Men
  • Wish