Wishes Quotes
1409 quotes by 1034 authors
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes…
— Hannah Arendt
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
— Aristotle
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— Saint Augustine
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that…
— Teresa of Avila
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an…
— Douglas Adams
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That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
— James M. Barrie
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts…
— John Adams
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I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
— Drew Barrymore
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
— Joseph Addison
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
— George Ade
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It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since…
— Alfred Adler
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
— Yogi Berra
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
— Aesop
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money -…
— James Buchan
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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
— Sitting Bull
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