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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving
Great
Others
Minds
Great Minds
Purposes
Wishes
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather
Love
Great
Great Love
Wishes
Always
Where
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
Whatever
State
Our
Evidence
Stubborn
Facts
Wishes
Alter
Passions
Dictates
May
Cannot
Things
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
Success
Survival
Patriotism
Liberty
Burden
Oppose
Nation
Pay
Every
Assure
Meet
Foe
Bear
Shall
Price
Support
Wishes
Know
Well
Friend
Any
Whether
Us
Ill
Hardship
Every Nation
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom
Independence
Power
Live
Wishes
Then
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
Friendship
Best
Me
Man
Best Friend
Wishes
Wishing
Well
Well Wishes
Sake
Friend
Who
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt
Truth
Liar
Hide
Trouble
Lying
Entirely
Clear
Wishes
Efficiency
Deceiver
Deceiving
Depends
Notion
Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
Steven Cojocaru
Good
Strength
Me
You
Heart
Thank You
Gave
Good Wishes
Wishes
Prayers
Persevere
Thank
Your
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
George Orwell
Future
People
Political
Past
Own
Thinking
Way
Has-Been
Only
Facts
Wishes
Most
Obvious
Unwelcome
Been
Years
Foresee
Same
Political Thinking
Ignored
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 helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill
Prosperity
Way
Indefinite
Prolonged
Only
Toward
Wishes
Period
Another
Got
Material
Behave
Human
Race
Helpful
Human Race
Peaceful
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Power
Must
Obeyed
He
Wishes
Know
How
Command
Who
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis
Man
Atheist
Reading
Young
Too
Remain
Wishes
Sound
His
Cannot
Young Man
Who
Careful
Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Saint Ignatius
You
Speak
Better
Will
Slow
First
Those
Silent
Having
Only
Thus
Wishes
Know
Understand
Quietly
Listened
May
After
Meaning
Who
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.
Monica Johnson
God
Disappointment
Regret
Cause
Hatred
Feeling
Before
Repentance
Admission
Merely
Sin
Wishes
Remorse
Sorrow
Without
However
Were
Situated
Proactive
Difference
Different
Turning
Act
Even
Away
Things
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell
Great
History
Men
Type
Megalomaniac
Feared
Great Men
Seeks
Charming
Rather
Fact
He
Powerful
Wishes
Most
Narcissist
Than
Loved
Many
Differs
Lunatics
Belong
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
Politics
Conservative
Others
Liberal
Statesman
Distinguished
Evils
Wishes
Enamored
Existing
Replace
Them
Who
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
George A. Sheehan
Fitness
Worse
Only
Maintained
Wishes
Alternative
Because
Exercise
Done
Against
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
Man
Age
Old
Long
Live
Every
Wishes
Every Man
Desires
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
Louisa May Alcott
Life
Long
Power
Own
Our
Kind
Dream
Weaving
Pursue
True
Wishes
Come
Make
Keep
Believing
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley
Great
Patriotism
Feeling
Nation
Our
Virtuous
Worst
Able
More
Cheat
Wishes
Attractions
Bully
Person
Vicariously
Fulfills
Profoundly
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Euripides
God
First
Those
Destroy
Mad
He
Wishes
Makes
Whom
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus
Soul
Heart
Whatever
Cost
Wishes
Contend
Against
Hard
Buys
Desire
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Change
Every
Must
Superiority
Ten
Ten Years
Tactics
Maintain
Wishes
Years
God cannot use you as He wishes until you come into the fullness of His Glory. Do not get alarmed, my friend, when doubts creep in. That is old Satan. Pray, pray, pray.
George Washington Carver
God
You
Satan
Old
My Friend
He
Wishes
Come
Until
Glory
Pray
His
Friend
Get
Cannot
Use
Doubts
Fullness
Creep
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Sun Tzu
Enemy
Sign
Compliments
Truce
Wishes
Mouths
Sent
Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
Wayne Dyer
Crazy
Thoughts
You
Creative
Impossible
Honor
Free
Wish
Practice
Imagination
Others
Seeing
About
Instead
Wishes
Ideas
Overflow
Materialize
Begin
Intend
Being
Regardless
Manifest
Them
Noticing
Your
Fully
Initiate
Filling
Keeping
Careful
Imagining
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