Wish Quotes
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If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.
Ernest Holmes
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There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.
Nicholas Sparks
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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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Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I wish I knew what I know now before.
Rod Stewart
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If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.
Eugenio Maria de Hostos
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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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Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.
Miranda Cosgrove
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I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing.
Theodore Roethke
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I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgemental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.
John Barrowman
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As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
Daniel Craig
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You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
Queen Victoria
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I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.
Kurt Sutter
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Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.
Pink
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I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle.
Dmitri Mendeleev
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I love all food. All of it. I wish I could be a professional eater.
Lauren Gibbs
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Devereux Forester's being ruined by his vanity is extremely good, but I wish you would not let him plunge into a 'vortex of dissipation.' I do not object to the thing, but I cannot bear the expression; it is such thorough novel slang, and so old that I daresay Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.
Jane Austen
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Marvin Gaye was a friend of mine, and he used to say, 'Man, I wish I could sing like you - if I could have that growl in my voice.' And I said, 'Man, are you kidding me? I want to sing like you. Everybody wants to sing like you.'
Dennis Edwards The Temptations
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracian
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I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
Zell Miller
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It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in nature. The micro-world is inherently 'fuzzy' - the sharper the detail we wish to study, the higher the energy that is required and the bigger the accelerator that is needed.
Martin Rees
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I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'
James Corden
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We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
Calvin Coolidge
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When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.
M. Shadows