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"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 Quincy Adams 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." Joseph Addison 4.6028 average rating Rate this Quote
"Exiles feed on hope." Æschylus 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified." Aesop 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it." Elaine Agather 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly." Woody Allen 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter." Gordon William Allport 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice." Corazón Cojuangco Aquino 4.4375 average rating Rate this Quote
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit." Aristotle 4.3500 average rating Rate this Quote
"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." Aristotle 4.4800 average rating Rate this Quote
"My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make." Thomas Arnold 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." Lady Nancy Astor 3.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Weep for the lives your wishes never led." Wystan Hugh Auden 4.8462 average rating Rate this Quote
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." Saint Augustine 4.8182 average rating Rate this Quote
"No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high." Harriet Du Autermont 4.9048 average rating Rate this Quote
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." Richard David Bach 4.9250 average rating Rate this Quote
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." Sir Francis Bacon 4.5714 average rating Rate this Quote
"But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having." John Perry Barlow 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." Sir James Matthew Barrie 4.8269 average rating Rate this Quote
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not." Mary Catherine Bateson 4.7222 average rating Rate this Quote
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