Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If you summon your courage to challenge something, you’ll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I don't run outside, honestly. Sometimes I go out around my house, but mainly it's the stupid treadmill. I wish I had… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I said Justin Bieber looked like a little lesbian -- and I stand by it: He's the daughter Cher wishes she'd had. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
If we educate ourselves, then the desire and need to have art as a part of our lives will happen organically. I… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me -… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met, and the… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I wish to make add my voice to the cry which rises up with increasing anguish from every part of the world,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
My government currently runs things only because the people 'allow' them to run things. It is my responsibility that I do everything… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind. — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
I wish I was more of a song-and-dance girl. I sang in a show once. I wish I could be in 'Hair.' — Kim Dickens Copy Share Image
We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
How much I wish I could tell you, Dad How much you mean to me.... But there are no words to say… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it… — Vittorio Arrigoni Copy Share Image
The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I've said the Grammys messed up metal because it's not on TV. What I'm saying is when you're in a metal category,… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The team was going into transition. The team that we had could not continue to exist. Because of age, injury, it could… — Geoff Petrie Copy Share Image
A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
