Oscar Wilde Quotes

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

Oscar Wilde

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• I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Man
  • Focused
  • Stay Focused

• The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Truth
  • Sarcastic

• Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Great
  • Sports

• No one should be left to suffer alone.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Alone
  • Should
  • Suffer

• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Long
  • Imagination

• The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • World
  • Man

• My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Race
  • Autobiography

• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Evil

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Long
  • Small

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • World
  • Mother
  • Door

• In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Ego
  • Personal

• I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

  

  Kajol
  • Great
  • Live
  • Change

• I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Miracles

• Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Heart
  • Blessed
  • Seek

• The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

  

  Anna Howard Shaw
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Recollection

• You don't make pictures for Oscars.

  

  Martin Scorsese

• For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • God
  • Fear
  • Disgrace

• A great road trip. To come back in Cleveland to win that series and get these two ... no excuses, but it's been a long road trip for just five games. It's huge going 4-1. Cleveland has a great team and Tampa Bay is playing better. But we pitched well and scored some runs. We're starting to jell together.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Team
  • Games
  • Excuses

• The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man