Wish Quotes
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I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
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I wish I didn't have to introduce the following information, on reptilian shapeshifting because it complicates the story and opens me up to mass ridicule. But I'm not afraid to go where information leads me
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In real life, I wish I could do a Scourgify. That would just be incredible helpful, when I know the rest of the family is gong to be back in 30 seconds and I haven't tidied up. That would be really helpful.
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I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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I think of the spam folder not as Pandora's box but as a costume shop in which you can play and play at being whoever and whatever you wish. If only for a time.
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I am 'too fiery' … yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything.
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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I wish I had more time to read. I do love books.
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Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.
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My uncle is a mechanic, and I wish I had paid more attention, but I never did.
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When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.
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I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.
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I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.
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If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
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For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series.
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Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
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I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.
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In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.
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I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.
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Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.
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I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".
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Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
