Oscar Wilde Quotes
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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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.'
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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My life is not perfect.
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If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.
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If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.
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Human nature is accused of much more selfishness than it really has ; a thousand kindly emotions break in upon and redeem our daily and interested life.
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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
