Wish Quotes - Page 10

• The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Sibling, Special

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• I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

  Peter Fonda

  Father, Eye, His Eyes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.

  Philip Neri

  Bears, Littles, Sometimes

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• I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

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• And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the same way more than once, twice, or another number of times however much you may wish to hold, wrap, or otherwise fix her hand, or look, or some other quality, or incident, known to you previously.

  Donald Barthelme

  Girl, Hands, Numbers

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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• The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.

  Andy Warhol

  Sleep, Looks, Rooms

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Profound, Relax, Kind

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• I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

  Kristen Stewart

  Running, Mean, Home

  "Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart". Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2012.

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• When I'm about to blow the candles on my birthday cake and everybody is telling me I must make a wish, I just go into a tailspin. I'm thinking: what do I wish?, and I just can't seem to think about anything. Then I close my eyes, take a deep breath and there comes my wish. I don't know how to explain what goes on inside of me, but that's what happens: breathing is the key to understand what's really important to me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Eye, Blow, Thinking

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• Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.

  Dale Carnegie

  Home, Four, Speech

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• Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.

  Daniel Pearce

  People, Emotion, Failing

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• Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key.

  Behdad Sami

  Perseverance, Ambition, Adversity

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• It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

  Bill Gates

  Nice, Ipads, Looks

  "Bill Gates Joins the iPad's Army of Critics. Steve Jobs Couldn't Care Less" by Brent Schlender, www.cbsnews.com. February 11, 2010.

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• I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

  Bill Gates

  Ideas, People, Christmas Wishes

  "Bill Gates predicted the future in January 2000". Entertainment Weekly Interview, ew.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

  Bill Gates

  Order, People, Track

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 16, 2013.

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• If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Ignorant, Fruit

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• Do not become the candle that gives light to others but itself remains in darkness. Do not follow the desires of your lower self. Should the Lord wish, He himself will pick you out and prompt you to be a source of guidance. He Himself shall endow you with the inner strength to endure the changes of fortune and will instill within you infinite wisdom.

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani

  Self, Light, Giving

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• The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

  George Orwell

  Class, Desire, Want

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• I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What's done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I'm not brave enough. It's a difficult thing to do - looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen.

  Eva Green

  Struggle, Brave, Different

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• I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Assuming, Speak, Opposition

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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• I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  June

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• Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos. We, however, live in the firm conviction our times will see not the decline but the renaissance of the West. It is our proud hope and our unshakable belief Germany can make an imperishable contribution to this great work.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Europe, Light

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, World, Wells

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• To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

  Henry Rollins

  Breathing, Giving, Mouths

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