Wishes Quotes
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Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.
L. Ron Hubbard -
You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.
Katherine Marsh
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What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong?
Chuck Austen -
The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.
Charles Dickens -
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 -
Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.
Aristotle -
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Epictetus -
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves.
Lucille Clifton
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I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.
M.I.A. -
When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.
Plutarch -
You know, folks, the French have always been reluctant to surrender to the wishes of their friends, and almost anticipatory in their urge to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.
Dennis Miller -
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.
C. S. Lewis -
When it's all said and done, I'm held responsible for our budget. If I had the latitude, there's nothing I would rather do than grant everybody's wishes. Unfortunately, I'm not in that position.
Eric Hyman -
A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.
W. Edwards Deming
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The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. Meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.
Brassaï -
When the news broke that John McCain had been diagnosed with brain cancer, the outpouring of well wishes all hailed his toughness.
John Dickerson -
It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.
Dale Carnegie -
It is only natural that people's wishes and aspirations should be realized by the leaders of the region. As this wind of change blows, it is up to the leaders to seize this opportunity to look for the better future for their own people through bold reforms before it is too late, before the people are forced to take action.
Ban Ki-moon -
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
Thomas Hardy
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You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.
Ashley Madekwe -
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.
Epictetus -
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
Marilyn Monroe