William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
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• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Society
  • Paint
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• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
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• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Real
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• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Happiness
  • Absence
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• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• How you manage change can make all the difference.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • You
  • Change
  • Difference

• I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Rest
  • Acting

• I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Great
  • Know

• Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Done
  • Pretty

• I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Family
  • School
  • Culture

• As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Learning
  • Capable
  • Cruel

• Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • She
  • Nation
  • Agriculture

• I'm a serial monogamist.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Serial

• I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Camera
  • Obsessed

• I loved reading 'Anne of Green Gables' and 'Little Women' and Jane Austen. Those were times when people really did have only one true love in their life.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Children
  • Why
  • Kids

• Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Question
  • Challenge

• Lines have to smile. There have to be life, blood and heart in things you let go. They have to be human, warm and alive

  

  Kay Bojesen
  • Heart
  • Humans
  • Blood

• By a route obscure and lonely,Haunted by ill angels only,Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule - From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,Out of SPACE - out of TIME.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Time
  • Night
  • Black

• The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Night
  • Growth
  • Affection