William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Long
- Progress
- Boy
I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.

Taylor Kinney
- Up
- Game
- Waiting
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

Larry Elder
- People
- Work
- Profit
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

Rachel Cusk
- Writing
- Women
- May
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

Queen Rania of Jordan
- Good
- Now
- Embrace
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

R. W. Apple, Jr.