"Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones."

-- Oscar Wilde

#Ruins Quotes #Cry Quotes #Refuge Quotes

“You are what you pretend to be.”

Source : Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity (2011). “Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas”, p.161, Random House
“I decided to write about the myths of divorce.”
“To say that they are the enemy of the people, among the worst human beings on earth, it encourages and legitimizes an anger towards the press that, you know, I think, fosters this attitude.”
“I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.”
“It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'”
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
“AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.”
“Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.”

Source : Thornton Wilder (1962). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”, New York : Limited Editions Club

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