Quotes with wishes

  • Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
  • Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
  • The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

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  • Hannah Arendt The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Sun Tzu When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Jonathan Swift Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Demosthenes A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Jose Ferrer A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
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  • David Seabury A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Maya Angelou A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • C. S. Lewis A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anna Pavlova Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Woodrow Wilson America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Robert Frost Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Camille Paglia And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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