Wishes Quotes
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The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.
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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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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...
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When the news broke that John McCain had been diagnosed with brain cancer, the outpouring of well wishes all hailed his toughness.
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
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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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The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.
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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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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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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.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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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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We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.
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A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.
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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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We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.
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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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One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.
