Best One Wishes Quotes
63 One Wishes quotes by 54 unique authors
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I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm…
— Anton Chekhov
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Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same…
— Bertrand Russell
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The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
— Louis Pasteur
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There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as…
— Albert Memmi
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One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on…
— Vilayat Inayat Khan
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Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
— Charlton Laird
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Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is…
— Corin Nemec
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If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of…
— Henri Poincare
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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
— Oscar Wilde
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The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.
— George Orwell
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However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts in pastures. No.…
— Frank O'Hara
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After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike…
— Frank Beddor
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perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
— Salman Rushdie
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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently…
— Boris Pasternak
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Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has…
— Albert Einstein
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
— Susan Sontag
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When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the…
— Harlan Ellison
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes…
— Lucille Clifton
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"The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to…
— Dalai Lama
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