Wish Quotes
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
Seneca the Younger
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You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
Stephen Fry
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I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Of all the things I wish for in this world, I want you to find happiness. I suspect you never will have that with me, and I've resigned myself to the matter.”
Courtney Milan
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To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.
Ernest Renan
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I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten, Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land! * * * * * Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.
Dan Emmett
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I don't really read books. Wish I did.
Rebecca Ferguson
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I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.
Elizabeth Scott
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I just wish I could see myself in me.
Beth Revis
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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.
Virginia Woolf
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I wish that every Latter-day Saint could say and mean it with all his heart: 'I'll go where you want me to go. I'll say what you want me to say. I'll be what you want me to be'. If we could do that, we would be assured of the maximum happiness here and exaltation in the celestial kingdom of God hereafter.
Ezra Taft Benson
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If you wish to write, write.
Epictetus
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If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.
Eugenio Maria de Hostos
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THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master.
Deon Meyer
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Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.
Mother Teresa
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He just hit one of those shots. You wish when you hit a shot like that you win a game rather than lose a game.
Bob Thomason
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A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.
Edwin W. Rice
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Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
William Wordsworth
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So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?
Stephanie Perkins
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"I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine
Cynthia Lord
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I don't think any actor can be happy with their performance. There's always something you wish you would have done or said differently.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
Jane Austen
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It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton