Oscar Wilde Quotes
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Quotes to Explore
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
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During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
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If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.
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The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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We're going to reserve our efforts and our national solidarity for the most humble, the most modest, and the most poor among us.
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Love, as life, will fortunately remain an eternal mystery which no science will be able to penetrate and which reason cannot rule. Our only hope for the future is that man, endowed with a more delicate sense, will listen to the secrets of his own life.
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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
