Oscar Wilde Quotes
And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.
Quotes to Explore
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
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'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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I'm staying focused and clear about what I want in life, and I'm going to get it, man.
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We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.
