Virginia Woolf Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Wish Quotes

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

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Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.

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An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

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The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours.

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I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

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He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

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I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.

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The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

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

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

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Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

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I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

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My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Wish Quotes , Connections Quotes

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

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