Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Wish Quotes

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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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Wish Quotes , Might Quotes

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

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Tags : Adolf Loos Quotes , Cities Quotes , Wish Quotes

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Hate Quotes , Wish Quotes

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

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Adventure 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

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

I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Race 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

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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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Bird Quotes , Wish Quotes

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

‎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

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , People Quotes , Wish Quotes

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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

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

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Understanding Quotes , Wish Quotes

I wish to go on living even after my death.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Inspirational 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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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Promise 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

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

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Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Wish Quotes , Tape Quotes