Oscar Wilde Quotes
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
Ornella Muti -
A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
Warren Farrell -
At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
Tammy Duckworth -
The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
Ze Frank -
Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
Madhuri Dixit -
A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
Viggo Mortensen
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
Taron Egerton -
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler -
I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
Dakota Fanning -
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
Walter F. Mondale -
President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.
Daniel Ellsberg -
For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
Randi Weingarten
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
Ted Deutch -
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
Idi Amin -
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
Nathan Deal -
My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
Mara Wilson -
Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.
Abu Bakr -
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
A. N. Wilson
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer -
I can't be the kind of leader you want me to. I will never, ever be the kind of leader you want me to be. And I will be better because of it.
Beth Revis -
Clearly, it's going to affect the Gulf Coast economy quite a bit.
Ben Bernanke -
Overall, our population is in the worst shape it's ever been. Children are in terrible shape. We have absolutely unprecedented numbers of obese and overweight children - one in three now. A generation ago it was something like one in ten.
Neal Barnard -
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
Oscar Wilde