Voltaire Quotes, Communication Quotes, Wish Quotes

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Wish Quotes , Agents Quotes

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

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

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Interesting Quotes , Wish Quotes

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Believe 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

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

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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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Men Quotes , Wish Quotes

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Wish Quotes , Sake Quotes

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing 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

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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When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Want Something Quotes , Wish Quotes

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Regret 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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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Wish Quotes , Shy Quotes

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Hands Quotes , Wish Quotes

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

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By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.

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When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious.

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Tags : Alan Ruck Quotes , Drama Quotes , Wish Quotes

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

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