Oscar Wilde Quotes
Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
Quotes to Explore
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.
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That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.
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What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.
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But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .
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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
