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To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
Lionel Blue

Surprise, Nicer, Teens

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Samuel Richardson

Power, Less, Loves

I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.
Ashley Greene

Love, Hate, Bad

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Publilius Syrus

Tell, Condition, Conceal

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus

Reach, Begin, Highest

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
George Herbert

Off, Kiss, Hand

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Elizabeth I

Death, Hate, Less

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel de Cervantes

Good, Laziness, Arrived

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life, Love, Time

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.
Susan Orlean

Truth, Someone, Wrong

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
Susan Orlean

Knowledge, Beautiful, Few

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
Isaiah Berlin

Why, Whether, Curious

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Best, Poetry, Words

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.
Jenny McCarthy

Idea, Might, Rise

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 make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
Rene Russo

Birthday, Time, Wisdom

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
Menander

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne

Mother, Father, Both

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
David Trimble

Future, Forward, Past

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
Carol Burnett

Mother, Done, Same

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.
Louis C. K.

Hope, Everything, Tell

Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.'
Louis C. K.

Saying, Christian, Why

I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
Whitney Houston

Almost, Exciting, Happening

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
Sitting Bull

Great, Father, Consider

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
Vivienne Westwood

Women, Men, Seem

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S. I. Hayakawa

Life, Good, Live

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
Ernst Haas

Time, Past, Long

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
Plautus

Happen, Expect, Frequently

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.
Ryan Giggs

Nor, Seek, Subject

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.
Imelda Marcos

Peace, War, Islam

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.
Helena Bonham Carter

Small, Sometimes, Whatever

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