Best Wishes Quotations
1409 Wishes quotes by 973 unique authors
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If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the…
— James A. Baldwin
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When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used…
— Marie Curie
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You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
— Honore de Balzac
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I am always for the man who wishes to work.
— Abraham Lincoln
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own -…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.
— James Madison
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All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention…
— Paul Cezanne
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Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed…
— Dan Barker
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In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he…
— Paul Gauguin
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If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior…
— Adolf Hitler
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The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes…
— Joseph Story
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I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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He, who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have.
— Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena
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A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
— Jose Ferrer
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The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes…
— Unknown Author
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Believing is easier than thinking; that's why there will always be more believers than thinkers. However, the results of god-belief are often far more mental…
— Mark Thomas
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People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by…
— Friedrich Engels
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We assert that integrity (the condition of being whole and complete) is a necessary condition for workability, and that the resultant level of workability determines…
— Werner Erhard
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Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.
— Amby Burfoot
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Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the higher the motive…
— Katharine Drexel
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