Wish Quotes
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Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war.
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A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.
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You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia.
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It was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.
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No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.
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The natural beauty of the earth made hard for me to consider the pathetic struggle of humans on the face of it. The great release of death, I thought, was not from the bondage to our lovely planet- who could ever wish to leave this extraordinary place?- but from one another.
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We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.
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He's a special person. No one knows how fair and ethical a person he is unless you've been around him. He has the highest degree of integrity. I'm glad he's staying around the state. I just wish I could see him win one (state championship).
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Leonardo DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.
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Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.
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I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.
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To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It's often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It's the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life.
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Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.
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All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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When you do a movie, you shoot, and then you go away. A lot of the times you walk about from the movie, you say, 'Oh, I get that scene now... Oh, that whole ending - I wish I could have done another shot.'
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I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.
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To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had.
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My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
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I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.
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I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came my way. It's what the studios wanted to make. Some of my friends were doing it, like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and they offered me 'Talladega Nights.' It's just nice work if you can get it. It's a joyful day at work, making your friends laugh.
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I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.
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I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.
