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I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

I have wished you something None of the others would....

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that H...

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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to ...

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do...

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Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you m...

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If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos...

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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to thr...

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I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to g...

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Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the ...

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He wasted his wishes on wishing.

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Shel SilversteinWhere the Sidewalk Ends

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...

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Sigmund FreudCivilization and Its Discontents

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quo...

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Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that...

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If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a h...

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As you cannot do what you wish you should wish what you can do.

Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not...

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Haven’t you got any romance in your soul?’ said Magrat plaintively. ‘No,’ said Granny. 'I ain’t. And...

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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue...

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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be alwa...

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If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment...

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What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwea...

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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable bu...

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You used to be the best to make life be real to me,and I hope that you're still out there and you're...

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Warren ZevonReconsider Me: The Love Songs

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask noth...

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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you ...

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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in h...

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I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and pass...

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So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interes...

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That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not...

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I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking...

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But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

My Lasher is powerful beyond yourdreams of a daimon, and he has learnt much.’‘Learned,’ I repeated i...

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Anne RiceThe Witching Hour

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut ...

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I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ...

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Bertrand RussellThe Philosophy of Logical Atomism

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. A...

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I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can d...

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I do wish," said Lucy, "now that we're not thirsty, we could go on feeling as not-hungry as we did w...

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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether...

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[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him de...

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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgivenes...

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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without s...

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Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.

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Charles SimicThe Monster Loves His Labyrinth

I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what...

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My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese onc...

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As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, the...

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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are...

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That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to ...

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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

I think every little girl's dream is to be a mermaid or to see a mermaid. [When I was younger] I wou...

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I wish I had done everything on earth with you

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain ...

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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally ...

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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden be...

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...

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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

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Isabel AllendeKingdom of the Golden Dragon

Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think...

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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer th...

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If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wis...

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The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the ...

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Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have...

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Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this.""Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish.""God,...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, becaus...

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Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like w...

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Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

You should have died when I killed you.

We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to...

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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.