Wish Quotes
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If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
James Collins
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You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.
Bryan Robson
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You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.
C. S. Lewis
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O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge,For I wish to be purged of an urge.It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue,And it is turning all my friends back into acquaintances, and all my acquaintances into people who look the other way when I heave into view.
Ogden Nash
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Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.
Dalai Lama
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I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.
Edward Heath
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Philip Marlow: You're the girl in all those songs. De-dum.Nurse Mills: What songs?Philip Marlow: The songs, the songs, the bloody, bloody songs.Nurse Mills: I wish I knew what you were talking about.Philip Marlow: The songs you hear coming up the stair.Nurse Mills: Sorry?Philip Marlow: When you're a child, when you're supposed to be asleep. Those songs.
Dennis Potter
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I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.
Ben Nelson
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I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
David Duchovny
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Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.
Aristide Briand
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'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.
John Irving
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I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.
Virginia Woolf
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I promise this, that if I am supported by our most invincible sovereigns with a little of their help, as much gold can be supplied as they will need, indeed as much of spices, of cotton, of mastic gum (which is only found in Chios), also as much of aloes wood, and as many slaves for the navy, as their Majesties will wish to demand.
Christopher Columbus
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I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.
Fanny Burney
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But just as soon as we got to the pool he said he did wish something mighta been done, though, and dove into the water.
Ken Kesey
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If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.
S. Truett Cathy
