Oscar Wilde The Selfish Giant Quotes

#1. We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.

Donald Tusk

#2. There was some violence a year ago. An important kid got shot during an attempted kidnapping while on spring break in Mexico. The Fortune 500 went security crazy. Now rich kids like Jack need a commando team to take a dump.

Allen Zadoff

#3. Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.

Mark Foley

#4. She's trying so hard to be okay
to make it all this shit okay
but sometimes it's like the world just won't let her. The hits keep coming, and she keeps hurting.

Tahereh Mafi

#5. Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

H.L. Mencken

#6. Quiet courage is better than loud cowardice.
Quiet victory is better than loud defeat.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

Socrates

#8. A blowing rain lashed at Jon's face as he spurred his horse across the swollen stream.

George R R Martin

#9. I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.

Denis O'Hare

#10. It's hopeless," he went on. "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!"
"We are dwarfs," William admitted, "but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.

Umberto Eco

#11. I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

Usain Bolt

#12. Old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

Dorothy Gilman

#13. It's so fantastic that Prince William has championed African wildlife. He's putting his back into it - and one thing the royal family is brilliant at is getting people to cough up.

Martin Clunes

#14. I turn my head to look at him again. Immediately it gets all fuzzy with hormones.
"Um, I was, uh, I was thinking about being shaken and stirred." He looks over at me and quirks one brow. "I mean I was thinking how well you could probably shake and stir something."
Ohmigod, somebody stop me!

M. Leighton

#15. In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

Fulton J. Sheen

#16. Laughter changes to screams, blood stains pastel stones, real smoke darkens the special effect stuff made for television.

Suzanne Collins