The best Quotes by William Shenstone

You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Wishes Satisfaction

Be happy for no reason, like a child! If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Deepak Chopra

Happiness Satisfaction

Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.

Aretha Franklin

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Lev Grossman in The Magicians

Desire Satisfaction

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha

Loyalty Health Satisfaction

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Boris Yeltsin

Freedom Satisfaction Breathing Air

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.

Mister Spock in Star Trek - Season 2 Episode 1

Ambition Money Satisfaction

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

It's human nature not to realize the true value of something unless they lose it.

Orochimaru in Naruto

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Michael J. Fox

Happiness Satisfaction

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Life Work Satisfaction

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.

Britney Spears

Happiness Success Satisfaction

We need to stop thinking the grass is greener on the other side and be happy with the love we have.

Craig David

Not all lies are bad, just as the truth is not always good.

New Moon Luna in Epic Seven

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Rebecca Yarros in The Empyrean - Fourth Wing

Lies Truth

The bigger the lie, the more people believe in it.

Adolf Hitler

Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 2: Tower Lord

Give them the right lie and they'll believe it.

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 1: Blood Song

Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?

Bryan Bedford in Miracle on 34th Street

Lies Truth

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Blue Fairy in Pinocchio

Sometimes, lies are more interesting than the truth.

Alison DiLaurentis in Pretty Little Liars

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

John Gotti

It's not lies that cut but the sharpness of the truth.

Camille, the Steel Shadow in League of Legends

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Harlan Coben

Lies Truth

Lies are exactly what people tell to make life more bearable. To avoid pain and suffering and hurting people.

Marina Nunier Osuna in Élite - Season 1 Episode 5

When enough people make false promises, words stop meaning anything. Then there are no more answers, only better and better lies.

Jon Snow in Game of Thrones - Season 7 Episode 7

Lies Loyalty

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

William Somerset Maugham

No matter what lies you tell, you can't fool your own heart.

Meliodas in The Seven Deadly Sins

Heart Lies

Lie become truth only if person want to believe it.

Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid - Part II

Always telling the truth is for cowards. Lying takes courage. Lies are simply an investment in your future. Any like any good investment, nothing can go wrong, as long as you stay on top of things.

Moritz Zimmermann in How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) - Season 2 Episode 1

What is the cost of lies? It's not that we mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.

Valery Legasov in Chernobyl - Episode 1

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

China Hackers

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

There are well over 250 victims, so we have to make sure that their identity is protected. Other than that, I think tomorrow you're gonna see some Epstein information being released by my office. What you're gonna see is a lot of flight-logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.

Smartphones

Pam Bondi - February 2025

The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.

It's sitting on my desk right now to review. The Trump administration is committed to truth and transparency.

FBI

Pam Bondi - February 2025