Wish Quotes - Page 7

• As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.

  Judy Garland

  Dream, Eye, People

  "Over the Rainbow : The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America". Book by Paul Nathanson, 1991.

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• I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

  Natalie Cole

  Done, Share

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• Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

  Hilary Duff

  Days Off, Needs, Rooms

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• 'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

  Lewis Carroll

  Talking, Lilies, Said

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You get what you work for, not what you wish for.

  Howard A. Tullman

  Howard A. Tullman (2014). “The Perspiration Principles (Vol. X): You Get What You Work For, Not What You Wish For.”, p.46, BlogIntoBook.com

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• He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Riches, Rich

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• Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mind, Affair, Ill

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Men, Tears, Woe

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire I, line 90,

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• If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thinking, Feelings, Speak

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

  Ovid

  Military, Coward

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• You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.

  Seneca the Younger

  Home, Night, Visitors

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• We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Might, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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• Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

  Victor Hugo

  Extravagance, Useless, Dry

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• It is worth noting that the people today who so vehemently wish to sweep religion from all public spaces and institutions are also the same people who consistently oppose freedom. They want only one God &emdash; the state, which of course they intend to run.

  Charley Reese

  Running, Space, People

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• Don't waste your time searching and wishing. Grow and be ready...and you'll see God will give you a love story far better than you could ever dreamed of.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Giving, Stories, Waste

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• People in the world wish to make things rigid, things which are of the finest nature which words cannot explain. When a person describes the hereafter, it is just like wanting to weigh the soul or photograph the spirit. I personally think that you must be able to realize yourself what the hereafter is. You must not depend upon my words.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, People, Soul

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• Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Lying, Waiting, Heaven

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• One must always say every word with consideration, and should not say what one does not wish to happen. Those who do not understand the value of suggestion walk after their own fate with a whip in their hand, and those who understand its value and control their word and use it rightly, they are a bliss to themselves and a source of happiness to others.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Fate, Hands, Suggestions

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• I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

  Gloria Estefan

  Thinking, Years, Live In The Moment

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• I was having panic attacks. I didn't want to live that way anymore. I was in love and I wanted it to work. I was tired of travelling, tired of the whole scene, just tired. I sat around. I was lazy. I wanted a routine, and I wanted to wake up in the same bed every day, and I got my wish.

  Linda Evangelista

  Tired, Lazy, Bed

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• Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream . . . But we must go on or we will all go under. And the great criticism that can be made is that the world lacks a plan that will enable us to go on . . . We must have sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace - which is rapidly becoming a universal necessity - into actuality.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Dream, War, Imagination

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• I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.

  Robert Burns

  Sex, Night, Opposites

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• Observe the reality as it is. As it is, not as you wish it to be. Perhaps your breath is deep. Perhaps your breath is shallow. Perhaps you breathed in through the left nostril. Perhaps you breathed in through the right nostril. It makes no difference.

  S. N. Goenka

  Reality, Differences, Shallow

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