Quotes 261 till 280 of 327.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.
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There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
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There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
Source: Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 January 1780 -
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
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Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
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Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals, ''love'' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
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Thy wish was father to that thought.
Source: King Henry IV (1597) Part 2 -
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
Source: A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary -
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
Source: A Distant Mirror -
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
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