Jane Austen Quotes, Wish Quotes, Shy 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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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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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Humor Quotes , Wish Quotes

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wish Quotes , World Quotes

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Wish Quotes , Remember 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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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Believe Quotes , Wish Quotes

There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them.

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If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

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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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , People 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

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Running Quotes , Wish Quotes

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wish Quotes , Ask Me Quotes

I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Sea Quotes , Wish Quotes

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Wish Quotes , Lovers Quotes

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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Tags : Adam Sandler Quotes , Wish Quotes , Facts 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

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

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wish Quotes , Progress Quotes

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

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