It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life. — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier… — Kao Kalia Yang Copy Share Image
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
You and I cannot be useful if we want to be sweet as honey in the mouths of men. God will never… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in… — William James Copy Share Image
I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me. — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
Where you want to be is always in control, never wishing, always trading, and always first and foremost protecting your ass. That's… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it… — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
Gisele Bundchen, along w Kate Moss, is a phenomenon. I wish models knew they have to have a personality — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The husband who 'serves' his wife by continually yielding to her desires or her wishes is in fact asking her to do… — Bob Lepine Copy Share Image
It must be acknowledged that an increasing proportion of the world's population is living in cities, in almost completely human-made environments. But… — David Wong Copy Share Image
A lot of people assume that New Castrati meant "gay." No, that's why I came up with the term "New Castrati." It… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
American public opinion sees Arabs as terrorists and has the desert-man image about them. I wish the Americans would see Arabs and… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You're the furthest from perfection, but your reflection on individuals shows and I won't show ridicule.. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Toward the end of their relationship she'd told him once, "I wish I could give you what you're looking for, but I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
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