Wish Quotes - Page 29

• Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for suffering - most people want to drug it, escape it, divorce it; do anything but live with it.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Divorce, People, Drug

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• That happens to a lot of couples. I understand the black history in this country, and regret it, I wish it hadn't happened. See, I also know that it hasn't happened to African-Americans alive today. There isn't one African-American alive today who's treated as three-fifths of a person like it was in the past.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Couple, Regret

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• America's a great country - you better believe it's a great country, one of the greatest on this planet - but even the greatest needs to pay attention. I wish the powerful sources that run this country could understand that.

  Tommie Smith

  Running, Country, Powerful

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Voting, Might, Vote

  "Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton". Interview with Gordon Repinski, www.spiegel.de. August 26, 2016.

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• Still, at the end of the day, I was really proud of [ Gigi Does It]. I wish more people had seen it. I wish it was more available, so people would see it now.

  David Krumholtz

  People, The End Of The Day, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wish that I had gotten a chance to do another season of [ Gigi Does It], to see if I could explore the story more, or the character more, and also find an easier way to make the show. We never got that opportunity. But I'll always be super, super proud of it.

  David Krumholtz

  Character, Opportunity, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.

  John Dewey

  Adults, Influential, Moments

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• I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  "I'm Marc Guggenheim, Writer and Executive Producer of Arrow, and This Is How I Work". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. August 31, 2016.

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• The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.

  Charlie Puth

  School, Important, Phrases

  "Charlie Puth's Reason For Being Obsessed With Alicia Keys Will Make You Say, 'Heck Yes'". Interview With Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. September 7, 2016.

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• The advice that I wish I would have given myself is to not care about what other people are thinking.

  Charlie Puth

  Thinking, People, Advice

  "Charlie Puth's Reason For Being Obsessed With Alicia Keys Will Make You Say, 'Heck Yes'". Interview With Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. September 7, 2016.

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• This is not our job, but we always follow the actions of our European partners closely and we wish them luck.

  Vladimir Putin

  Jobs, Luck, Action

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Of course, this person is to have the trust of the American people, then he or she would not only have the wish but also the supported political will to implement all these agreements.

  Vladimir Putin

  Agreement, Political Will, People

  Source: thesaker.is

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• We will work with any Administration and with any President in whom the American people have placed their trust. That is, of course, if they wish to cooperate with Russia.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, People, President

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I wish everyone in this country could magically leave the country for six months and view the United States from the outside for six months, and I think you'd see a new perspective to the people of this country.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Thinking, Views

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of feline digital extremities is 4, or 5, or 6," he simply looks at a cat and counts. A social scientist prefers the more long-winded expression every time, because it gives an entirely spurious impression of scientificness to what he is doing.

  Anthony Standen

  Cat, Science, Expression

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• If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intention, and the intention will generate the action, and the action will result in ruin and divine wrath. So evil must be cut off at its root, which is when it is simply a thought that crosses the mind, from which all the other things follow on.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Cutting

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• She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Beauty, Boys, Vanity

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• "Sometimes", says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence."

  Sally Brampton

  People, Broken, Needs

  Sally Brampton (2018). “Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression”, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.

  Joseph Lister

  Science, Practice, Noble

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• The Christians do not commit adultery. They do not bear false witness. They do not covet their neighbor's goods. They honor father and mother. They love their neighbors. They judge justly. They avoid doing to others what they do not wish done to them. They do good to their enemies. They are kind.

  Aristides of Athens

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.

  Patanjali

  Kindness, Healing, Heart

  Patanjali (2015). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.

  Shauna Niequist

  Leaving, Firsts, Hundred

  Shauna Niequist (2010). “Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way”, p.12, Zondervan

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• The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dark, Spirit, Brilliant

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• Their women are of surpassing beauty, and are shown more respect than the men. These people are Muslims, punctilious in observing the hours of prayer, studying the books of law, and memorizing the Koran. Yet their women show no bashfulness before men and do not veil themselves, though they are assiduous in attending prayers. Any man who wishes to marry one of them may do so, but they do not travel with their husbands, and, even if one desired to do so, her family would not allow her to go. The women have their 'friends' and 'companions' amongst the men outside their own families.

  Ibn Battuta

  Prayer, Husband, Book

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• A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

  Owen Feltham

  Writing, Sweat, Brain

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