Agatha Christie Quotes, Secret Quotes, Wish Quotes

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

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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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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mind Quotes , Wish Quotes

In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

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We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Wish Quotes , Paradise Quotes

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

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Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss

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I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

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

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Wish Quotes , Hollywood Quotes

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless

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Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Wish Quotes , May Quotes

All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

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Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Wish Quotes , Impossible Quotes

In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Wish Quotes

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

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I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

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Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Law Quotes , Wish Quotes

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Fire Quotes , Wish Quotes

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

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