Wish Quotes
9049 quotes by 5095 authors
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes…
— Hannah Arendt
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
— Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and…
— Aristotle
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
— David Attenborough
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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…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
— John James Audubon
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
— Saint Augustine
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations…
— Saint Augustine
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I…
— Saint Augustine
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— Saint Augustine
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that…
— Teresa of Avila
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I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
— Lauren Bacall
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard Bach
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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
— Richard Bach
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I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or…
— Michele Bachmann
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is…
— Walter Bagehot
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