Wished Quotes

663 Wished quotes by 517 unique authors

Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly… — Jefferson Davis
We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live… — Stewart Brand
He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily. — George R. R. Martin
I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men… — Germaine Greer
Don't we all have moments we'd rather forget, and thoughts we wished never came to us? We say things too awful to remember. — Randy Susan Meyers
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a… — Ian Mckellen
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been… — P.D. James
Basil..discovered a guild of abortionists, or sagae, that were doing a booming trade in Caesarea, and the surrounding environs. They provided herbal potions, pessaries, and… — Unknown Author
And every breath I ever took, every tear I ever wept, every star I wished upon seemed nothing until now. Every prayer I ever said… — Jann Arden
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. — Mary Oliver
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm… — Charlaine Harris
It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying. — Gillian Flynn
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.… — Ayn Rand
Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine.… — Bertrand Russell
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness. — Arthur Helps
As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it. — Ivan Goncharov
It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners? — Joan of Arc
My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent… — Edward Kennedy
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture… — Thaddeus Stevens
There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he recedes into his… — Kirpal Singh
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing… — Tacitus
I've often wished we had more women in the Senate. — Mitch McConnell

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