Wish Quotes

I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.
Hillary Clinton

Hair, Taller, Thinner

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
Hillary Clinton

Time, Sometimes, Lives

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

May, Others, Pride

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Brian Tracy

Life, Person, Career

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

Happiness, Leave, Miserable

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

Others, Ourselves, Imagine

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Life, Time, Thought

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce

Person, Him, Listen

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce

Women, Place, Sin

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee

Cannot, Word, Less

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise Pascal

Different, Find, Eyes

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
Harry Callahan

Life, Feelings, Same

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka

Die, Beginning, Sign

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Billy Joel

Fool, Thinking, Rejection

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
Jesus Christ

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli

Mind, Others, Minds

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
Andy Rooney

Less, Knew, Iran

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise Pascal

Write, Against, Desire

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
Andy Rooney

Important, Person, Rich

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
Ovid

Love, Person, Fall

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Live, While

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Alone, Wise

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Orson Welles

Politics, Enough, Dumb

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Women, Men, Power

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Hate, Loving

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Dangerous, Fault, Correct

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride, Pay, Vanity

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke

Happy, Mind, Two

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
Sitting Bull

Last, Surrender, Remembered

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