George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Islands Quotes, Wish Quotes

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

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My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Wish Quotes , Weakness Quotes

Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Dog Quotes , Wish Quotes

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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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Wish Quotes , Prejudice Quotes

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Latin Quotes , Wish Quotes

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Life Quotes , Wish 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

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wish Quotes , Misery Quotes

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Love Quotes , Wish Quotes

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Wish Quotes , May Quotes

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

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Power Quotes , Wish Quotes

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Hands Quotes , Wish Quotes

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , People Quotes , Wish Quotes

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Wish Quotes , Virtue Quotes

Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Wish Quotes , Devil Quotes

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes , Wish Quotes

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

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Wish Quotes , Despair Quotes

All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Interesting Quotes , Wish 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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Fire Quotes , Wish Quotes

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Wish Quotes , Spirit Quotes