Best Wishes Quotes
1409 Wishes quotes by 973 unique authors
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and…
— Winston Churchill
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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
— Maya Angelou
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it illegal for employers to lay…
— Edward Kennedy
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
— Juvenal
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A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
— Charlie Byrd
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Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.
— Guy Lombardo
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If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is…
— Alfred Tarski
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Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent,…
— Harry Callahan
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Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
— Sun Tzu
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Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers…
— Jerry Bridges
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We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish…
— John Calvin
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Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme Pontiff of the…
— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches…
— Horace
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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their…
— Ernest Hemingway
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no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march…
— Sun Tzu
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When the enemy's envoy's speak in humble terms, but continues his preparations, he will advance. When their language is deceptive but the enemy pretentiously advances,…
— Sun Tzu
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can…
— John Dewey
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How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends…
— Marcus Aurelius
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