Wishes Quotes
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A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.
H. L. Mencken -
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.
Epictetus -
A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.
W. Edwards Deming -
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
Thomas Hardy -
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
Leon Trotsky -
Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.
Judith Martin -
It is only natural that people's wishes and aspirations should be realized by the leaders of the region. As this wind of change blows, it is up to the leaders to seize this opportunity to look for the better future for their own people through bold reforms before it is too late, before the people are forced to take action.
Ban Ki-moon
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Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.
Eric Bentley -
I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.
Martin Luther -
I think it's ok to have wishes that conflict with each other - it's irrational to try to make them both come true, but not irrational simply to have them.
Nomy Arpaly -
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Epictetus -
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.
Heraclitus -
What a man wishes, he will believe.
Demosthenes
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed.
Arnold Lobel -
In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.
Claudius Claudianus -
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
Rene Russo -
One doesn’t just chuck away the story of one’s life, however much one wishes it had read differently.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw -
Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't … Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.
Philip K. Dick
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift -
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti -
We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.
Ahmed Yassin -
We suffer without a choice. We do not want to suffer and we try everything to be happy but the suffering happens regardless of our wishes and we cannot do anything about it.
Garchen Rinpoche