Oscar Wilde Quotes
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
Maggie Gallagher -
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle -
I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
Flume -
For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
Cameron Winklevoss
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
Ira Glasser -
Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
Barry Jenkins -
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
M. Ward -
Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.
Edmund Hillary -
I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
Ed Sheeran -
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
Rainn Wilson
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
Barton Gellman -
I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
Malala Yousafzai -
I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
Aaron Johnson -
I come with bad genetics, personally.
J. B. Pritzker -
When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
Cameron Sinclair -
We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.
Eddie Charles Jones
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People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.
Blanka Vlasic -
If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.
Nasim Pedrad -
My life is an open book.
Allu Arjun -
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
Johannes Tauler -
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
Oscar Wilde