Oscar Wilde Quotes

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life.

Oscar Wilde

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• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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  • House
  • Looks

• I never left doo wop.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
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• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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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
  • Life
  • World
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• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Desire
  • Creative
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• I love America a lot. I really do.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Love
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  • Really

• Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Up
  • You
  • Start

• Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • May
  • Understanding
  • Same

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.

  

  Ted Deutch
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  • Needs
  • Even

• Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Life
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• Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
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• There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

  

  Paullina Simons
  • Life
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• I am not the most objective viewer of my own work. So I have different thoughts about my work.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Work
  • Different
  • Thoughts

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area.

  

  David J. C. MacKay
  • Power
  • Energy

• No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Life
  • Love
  • Meeting

• Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Suffer
  • Faults