T. S. Eliot Quotes, People Quotes, Wish Quotes

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.

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Poets wish to profit or to please.

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ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

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I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that they have come among holy people, God's people. They can testify, 'Of a truth God is in this place'

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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

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

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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

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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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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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You cant help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

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Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

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I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.

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