#successful

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#every #fool #handsome #irresistible #ladies

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth. ↗

— Bob Graham

#aims #come #completion #concluded #distraction

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed. ↗

— Aaron Sanchez

#crappy #food #latin #like #marginal

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#attempts #effect #i #large #less

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

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We've been probably to some degree too successful. ↗

— Karl Rove

#degree #probably #some #successful #too

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less. ↗

— Alex Haley

#becomes #books #children #fact #i

It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door. ↗

— Kevin Sorbo

#door #get #how #matter #next

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#background #bin #business #comes #company