Oscar Wilde Quotes
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
Naftali Bennett
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
A. J. Liebling
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
Lance Burton
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
Walter Dean Myers
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
Irwin M. Jacobs
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
Dallas Willard
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In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like north-east - now that, to me, is where real life is. Everybody's life is not straight: it's often 30 degrees to your left, or in the hardest part of the reach.
BJ the Chicago Kid
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Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process.
Albert Bandura
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It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.
Dalai Lama
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I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
Caitriona Balfe
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If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
