Oscar Wilde Quotes

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.

Oscar Wilde

• Mind
• Thoughts
• Secret
• Terrible
• Kept

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• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

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• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
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• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
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• We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
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• No hero is mortal till he dies.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
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• As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Life
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• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
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• I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

  

  Damon Galgut
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• I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.

  

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• It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

  

  Sally Quinn
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• All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

  

  Bobby Fischer
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• If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the Holy Ghost to them, lest he should beget children, to be palmed upon the Elders by the people, bringing the Elders into great difficulties...

  

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• Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?

  

  Juhi Chawla
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• There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one step to reach out to people, when you meet with others and share their thoughts and sufferings, infinite compassion and wisdom well up within your heart. Your life is transformed.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.

  

  Billy Joel
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• I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Secret