Wish Quotes - Page 28

• I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I could learn to write in a simpler form, to be more direct and I'm going to be experimenting with this.

  Stuart Adamson

  Writing, Responsibility, Facts

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• By declaring yourself a leader, you're taking initiative and moving into a role of influence in a lively and vital network that's changing the world. We're changing the world, first by changing ourselves and then by touching the world as changed beings. We believe the change in us catalyzes change in others. So in changing the world, we're choosing to be the change we wish to see in the world. By taking on this leadership role, you are choosing to be the change too.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Believe, Leader

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• Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.

  Thomas Paine

  Liberty

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.141, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I remember telling my friends I wish I had stayed in school and they didn't understand: "You've got all this money and everything you want." But it wasn't about the money. It was about how I felt right then.

  Chris Bosh

  School, Want, Remember

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Grieving, Benedick

  William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.174, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I'd just love magic. I'd love to be able to just click and transport. I'd be like a fairy little godmother, I think, going round hearing what people wish for and seeing what I could do for them.

  Delta Goodrem

  Thinking, People, Magic

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• The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of this rather heady mixture of violence and policies that are remarkably unpopular right down to the last iota, it's not hard for demagogues, especially people who claim to speak in the name of religion, in this case Islam, to raise a crusade against the United States and say that we must somehow bring America down.

  Edward Said

  Names, America, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• I only wish my health issues to be open to the public in the hope that I can educate others.

  Renee Sloan

  Issues, Educate, I Can

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• There's always some days you wish things had never happened, like you'd never been born, that sort of thing but I'm not the kind of person anyway that can just sit around and say, "gee, I wish that never happened." I don't ever do that. There's no point. That is a total and complete waste of time.

  Patty Hearst

  Waste, Wasting Time, Kind

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• I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American... and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.

  Emily Haines

  New York, People, Identity

  "Taking Measurements". Interview with Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.

  Isaac Marion

  People, Stories, Elements

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• My personal time is limited, more so than I wish. However, my wife and I have talked about the fact that there are opportunities right now that won't be there forever. For example, when the Grateful Dead offered me to tour in 2004, my first reaction was to say no, I just can't do it. Then my wife said, "Well, let's rethink this. You don't want to look back down the road and say, I could've done that, but I said no." So, we made it work.

  Warren Haynes

  Grateful, Opportunity, Wife

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• I believe the advantage music has is the capacity to multiply itself, the capacity to keep itself in space and access itself at different times and in different processes and to make profound analyses, analyses that through musicality would be able to connect with people who don't necessarily have the energy or wish in any exact moment to connect to well-read or critical analysis.

  Bocafloja

  Believe, Critical Analysis, Space

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.

  Hugo Chavez

  Imf, World, Disappear

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Government, Numbers, Dumb

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Facts, Socialism

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• We all get out, maybe for longer than we wish, because we all pass this mortal coil more or less and so we certainly get a chance to experience it again, and we've experienced it before we were born. So it's more or less our natural place of being, unless you believe that the only time you're conscious is when you're alive.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Believe, Alive, Chance

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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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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• We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

  Wayne Coyne

  Play, Sweat, People

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

  Epictetus

  Flow, Strive, Wells

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• Yes, we have been visited and it appears that our visitors are prepared to help us if we allow them. It is a benign contact, however there are those who think that we also have been visited by those who do not wish us well, but I can't speak to that. I just know we have been visited, and I believe that we're being observed, and perhaps we can be helped in a crucial time if we're ready for that.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Believe, Thinking, Visitors

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The only problem I had on The Voice, was wishing that we, as artists, could have had a stronger opinion in our own song choices. At the end of the day, it's still a vocal competition show and you want to sing the song that showcases your voice the best.

  Curtis Grimes

  Song, Artist, Voice

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• Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Knowing, World, Portal

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• I'm very romantic and very soppy, but sometimes I wish I wasn't!

  Lee Ryan

  Sometimes, Very Romantic

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• There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

  Jimmy Connors

  Play, Tennis, Wanted

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