Victor Hugo Quotes, Wish Quotes, Progress Quotes

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Mind Quotes , Wish Quotes

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

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[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

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Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

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I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Wish Quotes , Tears Quotes

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

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Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

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I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.

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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

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It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

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Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

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I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

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Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

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Tags : Alan Zweibel Quotes , Wish Quotes , Lucky Quotes

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wish Quotes , Littles Quotes