The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.
Oscar Wilde
Related I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. EDWARD GIBBON Remembering people is the most fundamental gesture of love and respect. For me, there are people in ... TOM REISS Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde. OSCAR WILDE Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is ... ORHAN PAMUK This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cor... CECELIA AHERN I don't think what has happened to me is that different from what happens to most people. The only d... BILLY JOEL I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then m... MADS MIKKELSEN I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. ... WENDY O. WILLIAMS Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde ... G.K. CHESTERTON When I look at myself in the mirror, I wonder where everything has gone. Even the things I used to r... DEAN FRANCIS ALFAR The only people whose opinions I worry about are my wife, my children, and my employees. ALAN SUGAR In the past, a single fragrance had a life cycle of maybe six to seven years, because people would s... WENDY LIEBMANN Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ... J.J. MCAVOY The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those op... HOSEA BALLOU The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those op... HOSEA BALLOU Life is far too important a thing ever to talk about. -Oscar Wilde. OSCAR WILDE I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. E.M. FORSTER For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or... PETER FINCH All of my life God has allowed me to share prospectives with people who are different. You cannot le... PATIENCE JOHNSON Humble people don’t jump to offer their opinions or share their experiences unless they are asked.... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and reco... ROBERT KIYOSAKI She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making... L. M. MONTGOMERY People are saying that Toronto is more important than normal, ... No clear-cut Oscar front-runners y... DENNIS RICE More and more people are taking advantage of these plans. They seem to be growing quite rapidly in p... JOSEPH HURLEY We respect the rights of people to express their opinions. We ask that while they express those opin... GREG HAND Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be. IVY COMPTON-BURNETT Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the iss... SHANE CARRUTH Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and wha... NINA GARCIA The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored cl... SARA BAUME Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will. JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them. JUAN PABLO GALAVIS Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people. JOSHUA LEDERBERG Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God PEOPLE OF CHRIST Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men. A. N. WILSON I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I re... JAKE GYLLENHAAL I wish I could love people as you do, Molly!' 'Don't you?' said the other, in surprise. 'N... ELIZABETH GASKELL People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. M... PETE EARLEY I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of thei... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of thei... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist,... ROBYN SCHNEIDER Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others... NATHANIEL BRANDEN It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter... ANNE SULLIVAN I only collaborate with the people I rock with in life, period. I rock with people where I really re... BJ THE CHICAGO KID There are younger people moving into Astor now, and when I say younger I mean the younger baby boome... LINDA HILL My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem ... ORSON WELLES Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothe... ANTONIN ARTAUD I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living. CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY I look younger; I feel younger. I'm in no rush to grow up or seem older to people. DANIELLE PANABAKER I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony. SIMON RATTLE I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinion... BRENE BROWN When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less ab... STEVEN SPIELBERG [On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, DOROTHY PARKER Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, ... WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no ma... ANNE SULLIVAN Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wil... MARY ANN SHAFFER Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'... WHIT STILLMAN When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Lim... JOHNNY RAMONE Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them. HEATHER GRAHAM The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has... ROBERTSON DAVIES I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I ... HUBERT MARTIN Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think o... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life... JAMES F. BYMES These haters are too less in number when compared to the millions who support me. I look at all thos... DIVYANKA TRIPATHI The turnout was tremendous, much more than we expected. We are happy with the questions that were as... BILL TODD People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them somet... AGATHA CHRISTIE Claire is actually younger in life than the role calls for, but her emotional knowledge continued to... STEVE MARTIN Not all people are 'people', some are more and some are less. But only those who listen intently wit... WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN I see the psychology of this team, I see they respect me very much as a climber, not like last year ... ANATOLI BOUKREEV We can't manipulate people into swallowing our boundaries by sugarcoating them. Boundaries are a "li... HENRY CLOUD People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever ... VICTORIA BECKHAM I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am s... KATE DICAMILLO A man threatens to remove a dying woman's wig....and laughs as she cringes. He has now gained her re... RODNEY LOVELL I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are ... NED VIZZINI Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understa... VERONICA ROTH I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much... BORIS PASTERNAK If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become... JOHN W. GARDNER When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have fail... TIMOTHY J. KELLER I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open my... MOISES ARIAS Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advert... PAUL FUSSELL Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertis... PAUL FUSSELL Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertis... PAUL FUSSELL The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success. PABLO SANDOVAL I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought... OSCAR WILDE I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone ... OSCAR WILDE It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world OSCAR WILDE The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde OSCAR WILDE Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel wh... KEVIN BLEYER Lewis Morris: "It is a conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence! What should I d... OSCAR WILDE Some people respect some people only because some people respect them. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people ... DOUGLAS KIRKLAND Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive peo... PARK CHAN-WOOK I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them. HERBERT HENRY LEHMAN I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them HERBERT HENRY LEHMAN People seem more concerned now than they were back then. GARY GARNER Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than ... JAMES F. BYRNES People take life to much for granted with every sway of a clock pendulum time clicks away and is was... GARY F EVANS... Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the... C. JOYBELL C. People are willing to listen to her and we want to do as much as we can to make her voice heard. BEN COHEN
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Find expression for a joy, and you wi... OSCAR WILDE The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. OSCAR WILDE There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING: I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice. MRS. CHEVELEY... OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING: My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you ... OSCAR WILDE A poet can survive anything but a misprint. OSCAR WILDE The best way to make children good is to make them happy. OSCAR WILDE Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgi... OSCAR WILDE Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect fo... OSCAR WILDE Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic. 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OSCAR WILDE I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that... OSCAR WILDE And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ... OSCAR WILDE It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it OSCAR WILDE Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne... OSCAR WILDE Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow... OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is... OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. 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