It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman facing the undead horde must be in want of a knife.
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Memorable Line: ''It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a novel that has earned a good fortune, must be in want of a film adaptation.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an electorate in possession of a terrible president, must be in want of a celebrity savior.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single, foul-mouthed young girl in possession of riches must be in want of viral fame.
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Or maybe it's that a single man or woman must be in want of something that makes them feel like they are bettering the world.
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Notebook It is a truth universally acknowledged that an Indian-American in possession of gubernatorial dreams must be in want of a name like Nikki or Bobby.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged — or it was, for a while — that New Yorkers in possession of a good fortune must be in want of antiques.
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IT IS a truth universally acknowledged, or at least widely accepted in South Sudan, that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of many wives.
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The new crackdown in this political cycle shows again, as Jonathan Swift perceived, "Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want."
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CreditCreditJulien Mignot for The New York Times Lately it is starting to seem a truth universally acknowledged that any fashion brand in possession of a good story must be in want of a documentary.
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W.W. Norton; 416 pages; $29.95 IF A SINGLE man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife, that is nothing to how a regent in possession of a large debt tends to feel.
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What about 22013's "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" — an edition of Austen's classic with "all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem" that begins, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains"?
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A thematic statement, as with the opening line of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ("It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."), can also serve to hook the reader's attention.
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These sometimes risky speculations continuously caused rifts among the more conservative brothers and their extended family. Humanitarian Activities Simon was also active in the wider social and political movements. In October 1850, he joined with 12 other young men to form San Francisco’s Eureka Benevolent Society. They provided funds and help with those who might be in want.
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If the mother took naps during the day the tlamatlquiticitl warned that the child would be born with unusually large eyelids. Lifting heavy objects was also associated with damaging the fetus. The tlamatlquiticitl also told others that the expectant mother should not be in want of anything, all her desires should be fulfilled quickly otherwise the child would suffer. Not only did the tlamatlquiticitl provide this advice but she also attended and took over household duties for the expectant mother towards the end of the pregnancy.
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Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. # Luke 15:14-16: And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
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The opening line of the novel famously announces: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." This sets marriage as a motif and a problem in the novel. Readers are poised to question whether or not these single men need a wife, or if the need is dictated by the "neighbourhood" families and their daughters who require a "good fortune". Marriage is a complex social activity that takes political economy and economy generally, into account.
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Perhaps the most famous example of irony in Austen is the opening line of Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." At first glance, the sentence is straightforward and plausible, but the plot of the novel contradicts it: it is women without fortunes who need husbands and seek them out. By the end of the novel, the truth of the statement is acknowledged only by a single character, Mrs. Bennet, a mother seeking husbands for her daughters.
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Problematic, if not pathological, behavior may arise if conditions for starting and continuing such a "drama of life" are insufficiently met. One of those conditions, the main one, is what Helwig calls "resistance": the resistance the physical and social environment offer to one's aims. If it is too much acting will be blocked, if it is too small action will be short-lived and be in want of intensity and impact. Helwig characterizes his approach both as dramaturgical (1958) and behavioristic (1964), the latter because overt behavior is seen as the primary phenomenon, to be explained from the interaction action-environment instead of hypothetical inner forces and features.
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Using the pseudonym 'Alison Laydee' – a play on Austen's original nom de plume "A Lady" – Lassman sent out the opening chapters of Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion to several major publishers and literary agents, with different titles but only minor changes to the text, such as character names and locations. The resultant article discussed how all but one of the publishers and agents failed to recognise her works, including Penguin Books and J. K. Rowling's publisher Bloomsbury, with the vast majority rejecting the attempt to gain a publishing deal. This was also despite Pride and Prejudice opening line "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" was left intact.
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While in Ireland, he overextended himself in borrowing due to his occasional gambling, but in his defence stated that "I have often known what it was to be in want of money, but I have never got helplessly into debt". On 23 January 1788, he transferred into the 41st Regiment of Foot, then again on 25 June 1789, still a lieutenant, he transferred to the 12th (Prince of Wales's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons and, according to military historian Richard Holmes, he also dipped a reluctant toe into politics.Holmes (2002). p. 22. Shortly before the general election of 1789, he went to the rotten borough of Trim to speak against the granting of the title "Freeman" of Dublin to the parliamentary leader of the Irish Patriot Party, Henry Grattan.Holmes (2002). p. 23.
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The work contains hundreds of omens in a hundred and five sections covering a calendar of twelve thirty-day months. The first sixty six sections of Iqqur Ipuš ordered by activity concern those of daily human life, such as “If a man digs a well, … in the month of Ajar, then he will be in want of grain…”, “If a child is born in the month of Abu, that child will be despondent”, while the last third of the text concerns natural phenomena, such as metereological events, like thunder: "When Adad hurls his voice". Like the series Enuma Anu Enlil, it contains many astrological omens, such as those concerning earthquakes and the rising of Venus, but its relationship with this prominent work is otherwise uncertain. The Assyrian royal hemerology, “Fruit, Lord of the month”, excerpts several of its omina, but with a man replaced by a king and a house by a palace.
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