Wished Quotes

663 Wished quotes by 517 unique authors

The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when… — Charlotte Bronte
AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some… — Niklas Zennstrom
One of my best friends growing up was gay. It's never been an issue for me. I think there was a time in my life,… — Donald Trump, Jr.
All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'. — Willa Cather
The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our… — Saul Alinsky
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as… — Robert South
Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had. — Louise Hart
You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me… — Standing Bear
What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to… — Ambrose
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know… — William Hazlitt
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress? — Samuel Johnson
For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main… — Robert Browning
An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make… — James Bryce
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition. — Henri Matisse
I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too. — Paul Newman
I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not… — Paul Cezanne
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only… — Paul Cezanne
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have… — Jawaharlal Nehru
I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in… — Astrid Lindgren
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. — Steve Jobs
The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they… — Henry Adams
Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a… — John Kenneth Galbraith

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