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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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

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

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What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.

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Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss

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

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In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.

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

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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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

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

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Wish Quotes

The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Games Quotes , Wish Quotes

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

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

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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You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.

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I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

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You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Artist Quotes , Wish Quotes

We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Waiting Quotes , Wish Quotes