Wishes Quotes
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A curious horror overtook him, then. His skin crawled; the back of his neck turned damp and cold. I can’t go yet, he thought. It’s not fair! He shuddered. The void seemed to speak to him. Fairness has nothing to do with it. This will happen, and your wishes are meaningless.
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.
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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and wishes. For they're the foundation from which great things begin.
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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.
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.
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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.
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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'.
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In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.
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One doesn’t just chuck away the story of one’s life, however much one wishes it had read differently.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
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Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.
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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.
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't … Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.
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One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.
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I think it's ok to have wishes that conflict with each other - it's irrational to try to make them both come true, but not irrational simply to have them.
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That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
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There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try.
