D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Wish Quotes, Rich Quotes

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

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Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Mind Quotes , Wish Quotes

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Feelings 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

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

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

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Law 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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , People Quotes , Wish 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

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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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Humility Quotes , Wish Quotes

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Advice Quotes , Wish Quotes

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Wish Quotes , Tongue Quotes

Wish chastely, and love dearly.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Love Quotes , Wish Quotes

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Government 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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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Wish Quotes

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Wish Quotes

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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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Ironic Quotes , Wish Quotes

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Fear Quotes , Wish Quotes