Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Walter Savage Landor -
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
Varley O'Connor -
I grew up in a very large, poor family.
Florence Henderson -
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. Lewis -
Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
Harold Simmons -
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
Jack Schwartz
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
Zhang Zhidong -
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban -
When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
Daniel Boulud -
I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
Oleg Cassini -
Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
Pat Buchanan -
But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
Wendell Willkie
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
Zubin Mehta -
Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
Harold Feinstein -
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
Zig Ziglar -
It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
Ian Mckellen -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster -
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
Oscar Wilde
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
Raghuram Rajan -
Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
Sofia Kovalevskaya -
I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
Tao Lin -
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
Eben Alexander -
You know what a woman's curiosity is.
Oscar Wilde