Oscar Wilde Quotes

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

Oscar Wilde

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• Passion
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• We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Education
  • Information

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • Life
  • Now

• There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

  

  Victoria Principal
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Intention
  • Marrying
  • Kennedy

• We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Up
  • Action
  • Animal

• One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Up
  • Gay
  • Explore

• I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Day

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Life
  • Never
  • Down

• I've got heaps of dreams.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Dreams
  • Got

• My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Luck

• Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Movies
  • Changed

• I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Done
  • Together

• I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.

  

  Burt Ward
  • Children
  • Daughter

• Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Father

• I want to be known as a great businessman.

  

  Edward Lampert
  • Great

• Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

  

  Fridtjof Nansen
  • Stop
  • Wrong
  • Be Afraid

• Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Question
  • Passion