Best Wished Lines
663 Wished quotes by 517 unique authors
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Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished…
— David O. McKay
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If God had so wished, he could have made all Indians speak one language... the unity of India has been and shall always be a…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished…
— Douglas Coupland
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Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and gave…
— John of Kronstadt
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I wished I stayed at the movies, where I could have at least had some popcorn with my drama.
— Robin Benway
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I was somebody who never loved my hair. I had curly hair and wished it was straight.
— Jennifer Aniston
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If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in…
— Jennifer Aniston
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I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
— William James
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My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and…
— Winston Churchill
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I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.
— Beyonce Knowles
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In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable…
— Michael Kinsley
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In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night…
— Thomas Gray
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I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no…
— Dick Wolf
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Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
— Samuel Richardson
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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love... duty,…
— Peter Abelard
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Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control…
— Bertrand Russell
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Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!
— Mike Ditka
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These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to…
— Frederick Douglass
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... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those…
— John F. Kennedy
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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
— Oscar Wilde
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The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove…
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
— James Dickey
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If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, ‘What would…
— Ronald Coase
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