Mark Twain Quotes, Experience Quotes, Wish Quotes

There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

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I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Ironic Quotes , Wish Quotes

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

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Heart Quotes , Wish Quotes

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Talking Quotes , Wish 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

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

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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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Wish Quotes

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , People 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

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

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wish Quotes , Misery 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

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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

You know, obviously I wish the violence would go down, but not as much as the Iraqi citizens would wish the violence would go down. But, incredibly enough, they showed great courage, and they want our help.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Wish Quotes , Violence Quotes

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Horse Quotes , Wish 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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Tags : Plato Quotes , Psychology Quotes , Wish Quotes

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Missing 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

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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