Oscar Wilde Quotes
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
-
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann -
I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
Jack Dee -
I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
Eden Hazard -
One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
Gabe Newell -
If I don't create, I don't exist.
Ingmar Bergman -
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke
-
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
Ferdinand Mount -
You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
Vance Havner -
Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
Michael Peter Balzary Atoms for Peace -
I believe we're the party of small business.
Ed Gillespie -
What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
Rand Paul -
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
Taslima Nasrin
-
Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
Frances Beinecke -
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova -
I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
Mae West -
My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
Vanessa Marano -
That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
-
A lot of the people that stop you - well, they're not nuts, exactly. They're more like super-fans. They think that I'm some sort of rich guy, that everyone in the movies is making the kind of money Angelina Jolie is making. They don't realize that most of my life has been a struggle.
Mark Margolis -
Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.
Arthur Powell Davies -
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
Oprah Winfrey -
To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.
Nathaniel Branden -
It would be creepy if you knew my home address.
Scott Eastwood -
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
Oscar Wilde