William Shakespeare Quotes, Promise Quotes, Wish Quotes

Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

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I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.

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Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

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And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

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We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

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An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

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Tags : A.M. Jenkins Quotes , Wish Quotes , Despair Quotes

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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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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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wish Quotes , Extravagance Quotes

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

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Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wish Quotes , Add 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

It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!

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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , People Quotes , Wish Quotes

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

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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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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Wish Quotes , Prejudice Quotes

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

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 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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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Feelings Quotes , Wish Quotes

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

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Tags : Al Gore Quotes , Wish Quotes , Dots Quotes

The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.

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Tags : African Spir Quotes , Wish Quotes , Inward Quotes