Oscar Wilde Quotes
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
Floyd Abrams -
Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
Tawni O'Dell -
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
Orson Pratt -
I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
Victoria Abril -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke -
Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
Kate Adie -
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Wallace Stevens -
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
Larry Ellison -
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
Abraham Verghese -
I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
Lapo Elkann -
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Walter Pater
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde -
Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
Viktor Orban -
If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.
Ophelia Lovibond -
People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
Salman Khurshid -
I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
Dana Ashbrook -
I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
Nathan Lane
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Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.
Aileen Lee -
I wanted to play games in the best way possible, a way that was better than anyone else would have access to. As time went on, it became clear that VR was actually feasible on a large scale at a low cost, and at a quality far beyond what I had been hoping for.
Palmer Luckey -
By writing this, knowing that there was a chance he'd read it, i was up to my old tricks. Was I not sending an open letter hoping for some kind of response, in return?
Catherine Sanderson -
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
Edward G. Begle -
AMC All My Children launched my career and changed my life. I got married there and had my baby there and made so many close friends. I am so sad that it is going away. It is a part of television history. Pine Valley is a part of America. It breaks my heart. That role taught me how to really be an actress. It introduced me to a man who gave me my daughter. That is something that I am eternally thankful for and will always be.
Eva LaRue -
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde