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

• Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Perspective
  • Being
  • Behind

• We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.

  

  Burt Lancaster
  • Film
  • Forgotten
  • Memorial

• I don't think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent - that's all I want from the government. Pay that piece of it for poor or developmentally disabled children.

  

  Edward Zigler
  • Education
  • Government
  • Childcare

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
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