Victor Hugo Quotes, Wish Quotes, Extravagance Quotes

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

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He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Government Quotes , Wish Quotes

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Islands Quotes , Wish Quotes

The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Wish Quotes , Selfishness Quotes

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wish Quotes , Littles Quotes

Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Wish Quotes , Prejudice Quotes

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Advice Quotes , Wish Quotes

In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Wish Quotes

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Psychology Quotes , Wish Quotes

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Latin Quotes , Wish Quotes

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Wish Quotes , May Quotes

I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Ironic Quotes , Wish Quotes

You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Believe Quotes , Wish Quotes

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Running Quotes , Wish Quotes

You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Dark Quotes , Wish Quotes

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Wish Quotes , True And False Quotes

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

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Tags : Abbi Glines Quotes , Wish Quotes , Easier Quotes

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

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Tags : Adam Pascal Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Wish Quotes

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Good Luck Quotes , Wish Quotes