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Wish Quotes - page 3
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
Robert F. Kennedy
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility - I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
Frances Burney
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
François de La Rochefoucauld
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
Jean Rostand
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
John Paul Jones
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
George Herbert
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Anthony Robbins
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
Jonathan Swift
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.
J. P. Morgan
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
Novalis
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir
I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.
George Frideric Handel
I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.
Norbert Elias
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Winston Churchill
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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