Wishes Quotes

Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue.
Marc Garneau

Strong, Made, Unique

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.
Maria Shriver

Family, Tough, Service

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
Enid Bagnold

Humor, God, Happen

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Anna Pavlova

Life, Happiness, May

The debate on healthcare was not done like most of our conferences are done - meaning it was not all on television. There was this procedural feeling that the bill wasn't done thoroughly and didn't reflect peoples' wishes. It's not coincidence that upwards of 60 percent of folks in my district are against it.
Timothy Griffin

Feeling, Done, Against

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
Henry Knox

Government, Support, Force

She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other people.
Michael Schiavo

Her, She, Leave

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
Anton Seidl

Sad, Acting, Makes

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
Bill Nelson

Making, Known, Importance

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
Charles Tupper

Justice, Children, Parents

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Jean Toomer

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
Bernhard von Bulow

Power, Decision, May

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
William Collins

Sleep, Country, Brave

At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
Jack Wild

Age, Respect, End

There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.
Elizabeth Dole

Work, End, Doubt

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
Carlo Goldoni

Wanting, Pretexts

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.
Athanasius

Life, Mind, Understand

I wish I had it in my power to furnish you with accommodation I should feel proud to do it, shall be happy to hear from you at anytime when you engagements will allow you an hour and remain with best wishes for yourself, family and circuit.
John Hawley

Family, Power, Best

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.
Julia Jones

Change, Perfect, Everyone

Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes sent our way from my friends out there in cartoon land... the only place where a nine month pregnant woman can still play a hot goth chick in a belly shirt!
Grey DeLisle

Love, Good, Woman

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.
Hermann Broch

Ask, Truly, Seek

Slovenia wishes that Montenegro will continue successfully its way towards European integration and will reach peaceful co-habitation with other former Yugoslav peoples within a united Europe.
Janez Drnovsek

Within, United, Europe

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
Felix Bloch

Time, Before, Able

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
Joshua A. Norton

Until, Election, Act

I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.
Don Imus

Vocabulary, Stern, Howard

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
Stephen Spender

Dreams, Mind, Son

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
Dennis Gabor

Technology, Today, Important

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.
Denzil Douglas

Blessed, Political, Country

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.
Maria Jeritza

Music, Character, Hard

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
Walter Duranty

Problem, Rather, Minds

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