Oscar Wilde Quotes
When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.
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Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.
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At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want - for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war. (15 April 1943)
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I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.
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The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.
