Oscar Wilde Quotes

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Oscar Wilde

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• The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

  

  Vikram Seth
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• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
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• One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

  

  Jack London
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• I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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• I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Exercise
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• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
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• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
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• I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Nature
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  • Favorite

• Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stand
  • Temptation
  • Liberal

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity

• The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Thought
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  • Behind

• My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Important
  • Family
  • Me

• One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Feel
  • Young
  • Thing

• Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • World
  • Me
  • Thing

• Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Woman
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• They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Way
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  • Young

• Bolivar cannot carry double.

  

  O. Henry
  • Cannot
  • Carry
  • Double

• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Present
  • Knows

• It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.

  

  Deborah Jowitt
  • Dance
  • Thing
  • Intimately

• I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Thinking
  • Kindness
  • Despair

• And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Important
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• I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.

  

  Rich Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Respect
  • Talent
  • I Love

• The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Temptation
  • Cannot