Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Wish Quotes

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

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Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

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Tags : Bret Harte Quotes , Dark Quotes , Wish Quotes

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

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

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Wish Quotes , Lovers Quotes

Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Wish Quotes , Impossible Quotes

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 all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Wish Quotes , Trying Quotes

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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

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

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Wish Quotes , Desire Quotes

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wish Quotes , Purpose Quotes

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wish Quotes , Ask Me Quotes

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

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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Funny Life 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

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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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 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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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Secret Quotes , Wish Quotes

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Running Quotes , Wish Quotes

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

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Tags : Al Stewart Quotes , Wish Quotes , Half Quotes