Oscar Wilde Quotes
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
Gail Sheehy -
What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
Barry Ritholtz -
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
Omar N. Bradley -
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Owen Feltham -
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill -
I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
Vida Blue
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
Idina Menzel -
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie -
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
Karen Armstrong -
I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.
Larry King -
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
Harold MacMillan
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
Valerie Azlynn -
To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
Patrick Swayze -
I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
Sam Smith -
'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
Natasha Little -
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It is a strong castle, and strongly guarded; but there is no impossibility to brave men.
Walter Scott -
A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
Paul Auster -
It is kind of weird being the last gang in town.
Steve Diggle Buzzcocks -
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.
Dan Flavin -
I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.
Barack Obama -
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
Oscar Wilde