My Wish Quotes - Page 2

• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Love, Positive, Christmas

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• New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

  Charles Lamb

  Birthday, New Year, Holiday

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  The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  Lucille Ball

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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• My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together. Help me build the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online. I also invite you, wherever you are, to create your own miniature child-driven learning environments and share your discoveries.

  Sugata Mitra

  Children, School, Adventure

  "TED2013 Launches With a Bang" by Brian Hoffstein, bigthink.com.

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• My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

  Hillary Clinton

  Family, Children, Growing Up

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• I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgemental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.

  John Barrowman

  People, Judgemental, Wish

  "A Taste of My Life (John Barrowman)". Talk-Show, March 13, 2007.

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• If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

  King James I

  Kings, Men, Wish

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• I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Twilight, Wish, Quality

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• My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Self, Wish

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• It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you.

  Cornplanter

  Native American, People, Wish

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• Peace in every home, every street, every village, every country - this is my dream. Education for every boy and every girl in the world. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Dream, Country

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• I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go into the locker room singing 'I left my heart in San Francisco'. Nobody laughed or said a word. I figured maybe I'd get my wish

  Terry Bradshaw

  Heart, Men, San Francisco

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• By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.

  Gautama Buddha

  Worst Enemy, Wish, Lows

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• No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Government, Self

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.292, Algora Publishing

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• Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mother, Children, Healthy

  "Angelina Jolie won't tighten red carpet security despite Pitt getting hit", www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2014.

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• In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.

  Mick Dodson

  Heart, Mean, Rights

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• And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Wish, My Wish For You, Moral Dilemma

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true.

  John Dos Passos

  Kids, Moon, Hands

  John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

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• I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping.

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Wish, Important

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• Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in our private lives, at work or in government - we might experience a leap in prosperity. We need no extra cunning, no new ideas, no unnecessary gadgets, no frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less irrationality.

  Rolf Dobelli

  Simple, Thinking, Errors

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• I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how sure we would then be of doing His Holy Will, which is our sole aspiration, and how much peace and contentment we would enjoy, or so it seems to me!

  Vincent de Paul

  Suffering, Contentment, Wish

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Wish

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Supportive, Wish, Actors

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• You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Men, Wish

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.106

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• Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

  James Madison

  Wish, Slavery, Littles

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.161

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