Wish Quotes
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I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.
Mary Roach
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Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
Epictetus
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I wish we were smart enough that, every time we had an idea for a script, that it was great right off the bat.
Phil Lord
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The Wand is not a Wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of itself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it.
Aleister Crowley
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No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
Danielle Berry
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I wish I studied more religions, I wish I read the Bible, the Quran. I think as I get older, I will start to really dive into religions, just because I feel like there's truths in all of those books. Clearly. I'm saying there's truths in all of them.
J. Cole
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Sometimes when you get older — and I’m not talking about you, I’m talking generally, because everyone ages differently — things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they’re part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they’re not true — why, then you get offended because you can’t remember the first part. All you know is that you’ve been called a liar.
Sara Gruen
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It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
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I love New York, but I wish they wouldn't put clothes on their dogs.
Ellen Gilchrist
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Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
Louise J. Kaplan
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I wish all difficult poems were profound. Honk if you wish all difficult poems were profound.
Ben Lerner
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The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'
Quentin Crisp
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The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.
Kim Hunter
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I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.
Sadako Ogata
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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
Desmond Tutu
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We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.
Flannery O'Connor
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We do not wish to penalise the machine for its inability to shine in beauty competitions, nor to penalise a man for losing in a race against an aeroplane. The conditions of our game make these disabilities irrelevant.
Alan Turing
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I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.
Lisa Edelstein
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I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.
Barack Obama
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'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.
Kyrie Irving
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Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.
Mark Steyn
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We're all sinners, every one of us. We've all done things we wish we hadn't.
Jerry Falwell, Jr.
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Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
Samuel Johnson
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Do you think I wish to hang Taher? Well, I don’t. But the Law of the Land should carry its Course. And he (Colonel Abu Taher) did not send any Mercy Petition and so what is there for me to do?
Ziaur Rahman