We Wish Quotes

386 We Wish quotes by 295 unique authors

To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money,… — Wendell Berry
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says, "Because that is… — Philip Gulley
With how much ease believe we what we wish! — John Dryden
I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of… — Gail Godwin
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired.… — Ramana Maharshi
From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are dissimilar… — Erasmus Darwin
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not… — Theodore Roosevelt
Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new… — Irina Bokova
If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we… — Fidel Castro
First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think… — John F. Kennedy
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be… — Charles Darwin
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first… — Havelock Ellis
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. — Epictetus
With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at… — Ernst Haas
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as… — S I Hayakawa
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification… — Friedrich August von Hayek
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we… — William Hazlitt

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