My Wish Quotes - Page 4

• I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

  Edward Gibbon

  Money, Wish, Income

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• Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Strong, Men, Mind

  Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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• I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "'Fifty Shades of Grey' shines light on erotic fan fiction" By Stephanie Goldberg, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Real, People, Effort

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• Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.

  Max Stirner

  Cheer, Air, Order

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• It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club.

  Carlos Tevez

  Regret, Cities, Wish

  "Tevez: I want to leave Manchester City". www.mirror.co.uk. July 4, 2011.

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• Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

  Antoni Tapies

  Country, Teacher, Real

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• It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently sucking my brains out through my ear while trying to untwist the vacuum hose.

  Paula Poundstone

  Unique, Wish To Die, Brain

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• I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

  Andrew Jackson

  Regret, Feelings, Wish

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

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• My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Wish, Chemistry, Physics

  Vilfredo Pareto (1963). “The Mind and Society: A Treatise on General Sociology”

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• All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

  Winston Churchill

  Interesting, Wish, Want

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• As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Father, Boys, Wish

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.28, Pen and Sword

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• We're going to start with the injury report, obviously. Manning, Clark, Addai, Reggie Wayne, Freeney, Mathis, Brackett - all those guys will not play. Oh, hold up. That was my wish list for Santa Claus.

  Rex Ryan

  Funny, Football, Play

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• Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives.

  Minor White

  Photography, Grandchildren, Wish

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• I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me. (Finding My Way Home)

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Meaningful, Eye

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

  Andre Breton

  Love, Pregnancy, Wish

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• I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memories, Bye, Grace

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.569, Scholastic Inc.

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• You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts.

  Melissa Marr

  Wish, Force, Shoulders

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• It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Self, Wish

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Children, Wish, May

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• Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.

  Heinrich Heine

  Flower, Heart, Humble

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• That's not the point," he said. "What kind of creep would I be if I let my girl carry something heavy while I walked along, swinging my arms?" Your girl? "The kind that respects my wishes," she said. "And my strength, and my... arms." Levi grinned some more. Because he wasn't taking her seriously. "I have a lot of respect for your arms. I like how they're attached to the rest of you.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, Wish, Arms

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl: Special Edition”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!

  David Dellinger

  Happiness, Christmas, Dream

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• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Wish

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu Art of War”, p.68, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Numbers

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