Saint Augustine Quotes, Time Quotes, Wish Quotes

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

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A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Wish Quotes

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.

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An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

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Tags : A.M. Jenkins Quotes , Wish Quotes , Despair Quotes

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Cat Quotes , Wish Quotes

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Believe 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

I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.

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Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce 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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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours.

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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

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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 vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

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

Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Mind Quotes , Wish Quotes

I wish to go on living even after my death.

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