Oscar Wilde Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
-
It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
-
I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
-
The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
-
There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
-
If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
-
The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
-
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
-
There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
-
In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
-
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
-
You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
-
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
-
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
-
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
-
My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
-
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
-
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
-
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
-
I believe technology serves us best when it gives us more time to do things that are uniquely human. This includes activities that are enjoyable, creative, and productive.
-
Anxiety is the normality of our age.
-
When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
-
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
-
Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
