Quotes 61 till 80 of 84.
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The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
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The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Conquest of Happiness Ch. 1: What Makes People Unhappy? -
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
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The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 77 -
The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
Cosmos (1980) -
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science
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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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