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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Live, Die

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
Eminem

Dream, Almost, Nightmare

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland

Love, Silence, Words

If you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good, Adversity, Prosperity

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
Epicurus

Crowd, Approve, Cater

Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
Billy Graham

End, Done, Thought

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
Andy Warhol

Wish, Whole, Died

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Franz Kafka

Liberty, Away, Opinion

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.
Jenny McCarthy

God, Sorry, Said

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Christopher Columbus

Men, Arms, Subjected

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
Doug Coupland

Place, Found, Goes

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Jennifer Aniston

Boring, Perfect, Living

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard

Public, Private, Total

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden

Joy, Times, Possessed

Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.
Katy Perry

Remember, Grateful, Wanted

Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.
Annette Funicello

Dreams, True, Whatever

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
Julie Andrews

Love, Learn, Lovely

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
David Hockney

Good, Saying, Bother

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Life, Good, Loyalty

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell

Time, Busy, Thinking

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
Henri Matisse

Light, Anyone, Tried

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Samuel Richardson

Parents, Young, Sometimes

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
Franz Schubert

Love, Sorrow, Sing

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
Anne Lamott

Writing, Tell, Write

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
David Ogilvy

Abstract, Reader, Paintings

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.
Brett Favre

Past, Super, Bowl

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
V. S. Naipaul

Father, Nothing, Thinking

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