Best They Wish Quotations
174 They Wish quotes by 146 unique authors
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Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if…
— Hugo Black
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The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish,…
— Hugo Black
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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.
— Claude M. Bristol
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Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead
— Quintus Ennius
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There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they…
— Goldwin Smith
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Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who…
— Saint Basil
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I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for…
— Criss Jami
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Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what…
— Marcus Aurelius
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You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly…
— Daniel Kahneman
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Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't…
— Jean Kerr
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a…
— Anais Nin
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My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's…
— Nigel Rees
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Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they…
— Andy Rooney
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Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when…
— Louis L'Amour
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No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
— Haruki Murakami
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I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury…
— Lew Wallace
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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they…
— Winston Churchill
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When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.
— Marcel Duchamp
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He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women…
— Julian Barnes
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many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader…
— Terry Goodkind
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But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but…
— Margaret Atwood
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People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more,…
— Paulo Coelho
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