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Wish Quotes - page 2
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
Livy
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Seneca
Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad.
Euripides
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
Robert Mugabe
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Robert A. Heinlein
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
William Hazlitt
Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
Vivienne Westwood
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground.
Alexander Pope
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint-Laurent
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
W. H. Auden
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
G. K. Chesterton
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
Isaiah Berlin
I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.
Paul Walker
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anaïs Nin
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston
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