Agatha Christie Quotes, Vegetables Quotes, Wish Quotes

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

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He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

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An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

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One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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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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It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

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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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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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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 a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Wish Quotes , True And False 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

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

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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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

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He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

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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 can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

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

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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

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