Oscar Wilde Quotes

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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• After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Abortion

• When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Become
  • Civilized

• I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • You
  • Rules
  • Grandfather

• The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • End
  • Satan
  • Pledge

• When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Black
  • Mom
  • Myself

• The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Great
  • Society
  • Fear

• In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Proud
  • Stupid

• I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Value
  • Face
  • Answers

• In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Day

• I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Say
  • Two
  • Table

• The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.

  

  Kate Klise
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Herr: es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr groß. Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren, und auf den Fluren laß die Winde los.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • War
  • Die

• To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can't. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn't want to be in the sun?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Faith

• Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The Britney Spears fans aren't going to dig us.

  

  Dustin Diamond

• As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Hand
  • Emotional
  • Perspective

• I'm not friends with my players, but I am very close to my players. When I speak to them, I want to speak to the man, always the man.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Friends

• Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Foundation

• If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Me
  • Look
  • Him

• Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Feeling
  • Gives
  • Sort

• Love gives without taking.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• We love being in love, that's the truth on't. If we had not met Joan, we should have met Kate, and adored her. We know our mistresses are no better than many other women, nor no prettier, nor no wiser, nor no wittier. 'Tis not for these reasons we love a woman, or for any special quality or charm I know of; we might as well demand that a lady should be the tallest woman in the world, like the Shropshire giantess, as that she should be a paragon in any other character, before we began to love her.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • World
  • Women
  • Love

• He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Gives
  • Post
  • Fond