Wish Quotes
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We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
Jean Rostand
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I got the best of Rod. And I am fully aware that, even though I love listening to his stories of the crazy days, no relationship could really last then. I sometimes wish I could go back in time to the 1970s or 1980s, sit at a bar, and observe him, but I'm glad our time came when it did.
Penny Lancaster
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If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to me... If I wish to extricate myself from a dangerous position, I must consider not only the enemy's ability to injure me, but also my own ability to gain an advantage over the enemy.
Du Mu
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I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.
Candace Cameron Bure
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
Dalton Trumbo
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Now obey thy cherished secret wish,Embrace thy friends-leave all in order;To port and hawser's tie no more returning,Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!
Walt Whitman
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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.
Tammy Wynette
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If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.
Agnes Macphail
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
Larry Kramer
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
Damian Woetzel
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I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.
Rafael Palmeiro
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The sun in on the harbor, love, And I wish I could remain, For I know it will be some long, long time, Before I see you again.
L.A. Meyer
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.
Thomas Sowell
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There are so many people I wish I could have met:
Karolina Kurkova
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
Kate Atkinson
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
Ian Anderson
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Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.
Abhishek Bachchan
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
Wayne Dyer
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We do not wish, we do not need to expel the Arabs and take their place. All our aspirations are built upon the assumption - proven throughout all our activity in the Land - that there is enough room in the country for ourselves and the Arabs.
David Ben-Gurion
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I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.
Chester Bennington Linkin Park
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I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I've got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 - unfortunately it's not real.
Criss Angel
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
Daniel Day-Lewis