Our Wishes Quotes
37 quotes by 33 authors
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts…
— John Adams
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
— Aesop
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
— John Calvin
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish…
— John Calvin
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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches…
— Horace
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It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you would do.
— Janet Horne
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My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true
— Sara Shepard
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To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a…
— William Pickens
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No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that…
— Dale Carnegie
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We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually…
— Marcel Proust
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We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next…
— Emperor Norton
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We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.
— Ahmed Yassin
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How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.
— Hafez
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aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we…
— Louisa May Alcott
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We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or…
— Jack Kornfield
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It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.
— Robert E. Lee
Who Wrote These Our Wishes Quotes
33 authors contributed a total of 37 Our Wishes Quotes, led by these top contributors: