Wish Quotes - Page 12

• It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Humility, Faults, Virtue

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• Do nothing through human respect and, when it assails you, say: I shall do neither more nor less for the eyes of creatures. O my God, since I wish to please Thee alone, it suffices that Thou seest me everywhere.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Eye, Thee, Please

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• It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Heart, Blessing, Attachment

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• It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.

  John C. Reilly

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "John C. Reilly: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Humankind is closer to experiencing paradise than ever before. We have the technology to feed every person in the world and the knowledge to provide a means of self-expression, self worth, shelter and more, for all people everywhere if we wish to do so.

  Marlo Morgan

  Mean, Self Worth, Technology

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• We all hold on to some image of the family we want, based one way or another on the family we had. Lots of people are thrilled about the families they came from, others couldn't get away fast enough. Most people fall into that vast middle ground: great affection mixed with a few ideas for improvement. A couple of things they wish could have perhaps been done differently.

  Paul Reiser

  Couple, Fall, Ideas

  "Familyhood". Book by Paul Reiser, www.today.com. May 09, 2011.

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• 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Ironic, Taxation, Pay

  "North Korea Warns Foreigners In South Korea To Protect Themselves; 73-Year-Old Auschwitz Survivor Uses Social Media To Search For Twin Brother; 6.3 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Southeastern Iran; Uhuru Kenyatta Sworn In As Kenya's President; A Look At Margaret Thatcher's Legacy". "News Stream" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. April 9, 2013.

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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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• To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

  Lou Reed

  Memories, Crazy, Artist

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• I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Would Be, Ifs

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• Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

  Andy Warhol

  Way, Action, Strange

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• I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.'

  Demetri Martin

  Practice, House, Next

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• If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics - and this is, I think, probably a horrible analogy - but I look at politicians as they are doing what inherently they need to do to retain power. Their job is to consolidate power. When you go to the zoo and you see a monkey throwing poop, you go, 'That's what monkeys do, what are you gonna do?' But what I wish the media would do more frequently is say, 'Bad monkey.'

  Jon Stewart

  Jobs, Zoos, Thinking

  "Charlie Rose" Interview, charlierose.com. September 29, 2004.

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• I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Lovely, Naked

  Lewis Carroll (1954). “The diaries of Lewis Carroll [pseud.]”

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• I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. Somehow, the typical Porsche people-and I wish them no ill-are not, I feel, my kind of people. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one.

  Rowan Atkinson

  People, Car, Typical

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• My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

  Crazy Horse

  Valentine, Shadow, Drs

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• You might be a redneck if you wish your outhouse was as nice as those at the state park.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Nice, Redneck, Might

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• When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me.

  James Fenton

  Talking, Noses, Victim

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• That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

  Phil Collins

  May, Want, Trouble

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• If I set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for all of us is that we are happy, successful, and that we stay true to ourselves.

  Victoria Beckham

  Successful, Mind, Stay True

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• A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Opportunity, Done, Lucky

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• It should be heart-breaking to every American that we have a frontrunner in the presidential race that suggests there will be a religious test for anybody who wishes to come to our shores.

  Joe Biden

  Religious, Heart, Race

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• For me, relaxing is going on a 10-mile hike. When I have time off, I like to be at home and spend time with my animals, and things like that.I'm not the girl that goes out for facials, and manicures and pedicures, all the time. I wish I did. It would be better for me, but I get annoyed.

  Tricia Helfer

  Girl, Home, Animal

  Source: collider.com

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• I think. I do know that I like connecting to people who really resonate with the music. I guess I almost wish I could just connect with the people who really need it.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents, so Wild at Heart was a wish come true. The first day we did a scene together I came down the stairs and my mom pointed that finger at me: "Don't you dare talk to that boy again!" You know, I've seen that finger for 23 years. And I started laughing, she started laughing, then the whole crew broke up - in that moment, they all knew that she and I had been there before.

  Laura Dern

  Mom, Heart, Boys

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