People Wish Quotes

33 quotes by 33 authors

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. — Joseph Addison
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they… — Frederic Bastiat
We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is. — Blaise Pascal
Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and… — Jennifer Stone
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by… — Yanis Varoufakis
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have… — Claude Debussy
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. — Marcel Proust
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
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a… — Jane Austen
...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can,… — Brandon Sanderson
What are you so mad about? That we still have a government? We still have â€œtraffic lights.â€ Weâ€™re sorry. The governmentâ€™s not perfect, but some… — Jon Stewart
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes… — Lucille Clifton
We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be. — Paulo Coelho
If less than 100 people wish you a happy birthday on Facebook you should probably just kill yourself — Nikhil Saluja
No wonder why many people wish to stay forever young, because when you are young you don't care about the world and it problems since… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi
When people wish that loved ones were alive again and are disipointed when they don't come I think Well of course they didn't come, you… — Melchor Lim
Your life may not be perfect or the way you want it to be. But stop looking at the negative side and start thinking positive… — Stephanie Aviles
Some People want to be become a Popular..but the Popular people wish to become unfamiliar and unknown people — Mariane Corbito
People wish for a big family but having a big family is not always happy. — Joan

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