Oscar Wilde Quotes
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal.
Quotes to Explore
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
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If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Music is about the performance.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.
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When I read it my blood began to boil again. It drove home how crass that whole system was.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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"I felt so trapped. It's so nice now that I can do what I want with my hair, have my make-up how I want it and wear what I want."
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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal.
