George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Wish Quotes, True And False 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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Appear as you may wish to be

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Wish Quotes

There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

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An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

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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

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

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I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , College Quotes , Wish Quotes

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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

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Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Wish Quotes , Way Quotes

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Wish Quotes