Wish Quotes
9049 Wish quotes by 4630 unique authors
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Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't…
— Cate Blanchett
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I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?
— Elton John
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I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with…
— Jack Handey
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God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I…
— William Shakespeare
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Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted;…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to…
— Rudyard Kipling
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you…
— Confucius
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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are.
— Robert Ringer
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People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile…
— Anna Quindlen
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I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.
— Jack Handey
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I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing…
— C.S. Lewis
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Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
— Joshua Chamberlain
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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells…
— Mark Twain
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Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.
— Andrew Jackson
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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought.…
— J M Coetzee
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Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he…
— Richard Mitchell
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule…
— Charles Babbage
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Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner,…
— William Stanley Jevons
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If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.
— B. Traven
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When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my…
— Milton Berle
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If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own…
— William Gilbert
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