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Wish Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the…
- There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after…
- Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe…
- If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay,…
- There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine