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Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an… — Jean de la Bruyere
We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions. — Jean de la Bruyere
Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would… — Jonathan Coulton
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to… — John Galsworthy
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and… — Bear Grylls
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was… — Francis Ford Coppola
My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time. — Larry David
My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked. — Les Dawson
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods,… — Paul Dirac
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be… — George Eliot
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. — George Eliot
It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are… — Suzanne Farrell
Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty. — Penn Jillette
Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else. — Angelina Jolie
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. — Charles Lamb
It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline. — Harvey Mackay
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t. — Thomas S. Monson
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All… — John Henry Newman
The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day.… — Christine Pelosi
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's… — Rene Russo
In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end,… — Sharon Salzberg
I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things… — Adam Sandler
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. — Ricky Schroder

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