Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde: Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something ... | Citatis

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

Oscar Wilde

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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

Victoria Osteen
- Good
- God
- Thinking
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.

Barbara Kruger
- Good
- Work
- Mind
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

Jack Canfield
- Good
- Trying
- Mother
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

Orson Pratt
- Modern
- System
- Absurdity
I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

Idina Menzel
- People
- Men
- Women
Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.

Madison Smartt Bell
- People
- Good
- Writing